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Men and Women 



AN 

EVERY 
DAY 
BOOK 



CHOSEN 

AND 

ARRANGED 

BY 

ROSE PORTER 



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1894 



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January. 

Selectlona trom 

XTbe UempesU 

ITwo Gentlemen of IDerona, 

Comedis ot ;i5rrord. 

februar?. 

Selections trom 

Zbc iS^exv^ •Qdivea ot TKIlfnt)0or. 

iBeasure tor Measure* 

a /BiOsummer IRfabt's Dream. 

flDarcb. 

Selections trom 

iflbucb BDo Bbout l^otbfnd. 
TTwelttb misbt, 
Xove'0 Xabour'6 Xost, 

Bprll. 

Selections trom 

H0 150U xme f t* 

tTbe /ft ere bant ot IDenlce. 

a TlCltnter's ^ale» 

6 



Selections from 



XTamins of ^be Sbrew* 
mV6 -men a;bat J£nt>3 TSficlU 
•Rinfi 5obn. 



3une. 

Selections trom 



•Ring 1Ricbar& Xlbe SeconD^ 
"King Ibenr^ tTbe jfourtb— part f . 
tiim Ibenrs ^be ^ourtb— part f f . 



Selections trom 



•Ring Ibenrs ZTbe 3fittb# 

Icing 1benri2 ^be Siitb— part f . 

•Ring Ibenrg ^be Siitb— part If. 



Hugu0t. 

Selections trom 



Iking 1benn? XLbc Siitb— part Iff, 
Iking IRicbarD ^be ^birO. 
•Ring Ibenrig ^be Bigbtb. 

7 



September. 

Selections from 

5ullu0 Carsar. 
Bntoni2 an& Cleopatra, 
^roilus anD Creddit)a. 

©ctober* 

SelectiotiB trom 

©tbello, Jibe flboor of tUenfce. 

Coriolanu6. 

iTfmon of atbens. 

IRovember. 

Selections from 

Ibamlet, prince of Denmarft» 
l^omeo anO Juliet. 
Pericles, prince of ^^re. 

December. 

Selections from 

t^m Xear. 
Csmbeline. 
^ttus BnDronicus^ 

iftacbetb. 

poems anD Sonnet«, 

8 



Sanuarij. 



tTwo (Bentlcmen of lt)erona» 
ComeDs ot Btrocs. 



®t won^erI 
Wow man? gooMg creatures are tbere berel 
now beauteous manhinb is t Q, brave new world, 
Ubat ba« sucb people In'tt 

TMi Tempest, Act V, Sc. i. 



^be ^empeat* 

5anuari3 1. 

Wisely, good sir, weigh 
Our sorrow with our comfort. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

5anuari2 2. 

Look! he's winding up the watch of his 

wit; by and by it will strike. . . . Fie, what a 

spendthrift is he of his tongue. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

^anuarg 3. 

The truth you speak doth lack some gentle- 
ness, 
And time to speak it in: you rub the sore, 
When you should bring the plaster. 

Act II, Sc, I. 
January 4. 
Full many a lady 
I have eyed with best regard; and many a 

time 
The harmony of their tongues hath into 

bondage 
Brought my too diligent ear; for several vir- 
tues 
Have I liked several women : never any 
With so full soul, but some defect in her 
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, 
And put it to the foil : but you, O you, 

lO 



Zbc XTcmpest* 

So perfect, and so peerless, are created 

Of every creature's best. 

Act III, Sc. /. 

Sanuarg 5. 

It is foul weather in us all, 
When you are cloudy. 

Act II, Sc, I. 

5anuar^ 6. 

Men. 
While you here do snoring lie, 
Open-eyed conspiracy 

His time doth take: 
If of life you keep a care, 
Shake off slumber, and beware: 
Awake ! Awake ! 

Aci II, Sc. a. 

Women. 
Consider, . . . 
The beauty of his daughter; he himself 
Calls her a nonpareil. 

Act III, Sc. s. 

Sanuarg 7. 
Men. 
Wisely, good sir, weigh 
Our sorrow with our comfort. 

Act III, Sc. a. 

XI 



XTwo (gentlemen ot IDerona* 

Women. 

Admired Miranda I 
Indeed the top of admiration ; worth 
What's dearest to the world! Full many a 

lady 
I have eyed with best regard; and many a 

time 
The harmony of their tongues hath into bond- 
age 
Brought my too diligent ear ; for several virtues 
Have I liked several women; never any 
With so full soul, but some defect in her 
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, 
And put it to the foil : but you, O you, 
So perfect, and so peerless, are created 
Of every creature's best, 

Actni.Sc.i, 

"ttwo Oentlemen ot IPerona. 

5anuati2 8. 

Men. 

He cannot be a perfect man, 
Not being tried, and tutor'd in the world ; 
Experience is by industry achieved. 
And perfected by the swift course of time. 

Actl.Sc.j. 



(Two ©entlcmcn of IDecona, 

Women. 

Maids, in modesty, say no to that 
Whicli they would have the profferer construe 

ay. 
Fie, fie ! how wayward is this foolish love, 
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the 

nurse. 
And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod ! 

Act /, Sc. a, 

Januarg 9. 

Men. 

Hearken, sir; though the cameleon Love can 
feed on the air, I am one that am nourished 
by my victuals, and would fain have meat. 

Act JT, Sc. I. 

Women. 

* Is she not a heavenly saint?* 
* No; but she is an earthly paragon.' 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Januarys 10. 

Men. 

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that. 
And manage it against despairing thoughts. 

Act III, Sc. I, 

13 



^wo Gentlemen of \i)erona« 

Women. 
She is mine own; 
And I as rich in having such a jewel 
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

Aci 11^ Sc. 4. 

5anuarB II. 

Men. 

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; 

His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; 

His tears, pure messengers sent from his 

heart ; 

His heart as far from fraud as heaven from 

earth. 

Act II, Sc. 7. 

Women. 

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words ; 

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind. 

More than quick words, do move a woman's 

mind. 

Act III, Sc. I. 

January 12. 

Men. 
You have an exchequer of words, and, I 
think, no other treasure to give your follow- 

14 



tTwo (3cntlemen of IDerona. 

ers ; for it appears by their bare liveries, that 

they live by your bare words. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

Of many good I think him best. ... I have 
no other but a woman's reason ; I think him 
so, — because I think him so. 

Act /, Sc. 2. 

5anuarij 13. 

Men. 

I know the gentleman 
To be of worth, and worthy estimation, 
And not without-desert so well reputed. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

He after honor hunts, I after love : 
He leaves his friends to dignify them more: 
I leave myself, my friends, and all for love. 

Act /, Sc. /. 

5anuari8 14. 

Men. 

His years but young, but his experience old ; 
His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe; 
And in a word .... 

15 



XTwo Gentlemen of \Derona. 

He is complete in feature and in mind, 
With all good grace to grace a gentleman. 

Act IT, Sc. 4. 
Women. 

What is she, 
That all our swains commend her? 

Holy, fair, and wise is she. 
The heaven such grace did lend her, 
That she might admired be. 

Act IV, Sc. s. 

Januarig 15. 

Men. 

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, 
And study help for that which thou lament'st. 
Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 

Act III, Sc. I. 
Women. 

A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful. 

Act IV, Sc, 4, 
5anuari2 16. 

Men. 

O, heaven! were man 

But constant, he were perfect ; that one error 

Fills him with faults ; makes him run through 

all the sins. 

Act V, Sc. 4. 

16 



(Two (Bentlemcn ot IDerona. 

Women. 

O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved, 
When women cannot love where they're be- 
loved. 

Act V, Sc. 4. 

^anuars 17. 

Men. 

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken ; 

And he wants wit that wants resolved will 

To learn his wit to exchange the bad for 

better. 

Act. II, Sc. 6. 

Women. 

She excels each mortal thing, 

Upon the dull earth dwelling ; 
To her let us garlands bring. 

Act IV, Sc. 2, 

Sanuarg 18, 

Men. 

Slander. . . . 
'Tis an ill office for a gentleman ; 
Especially, against his very friend. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 



Uwo ©cntlemcn ot IDcrona. 
Women. 

Is she kind as she is fair ? 
For beauty lives with kindness. 

Aci IV, Sc. 2. 

Men. 

I reckon this always — that a man is never 

undone till he be hanged ; nor never welcome 

to a place till some certain shot be paid, and 

the hostess say, Welcome. 

Aci If, Sc. J, 

Women. 

" Say . . . wouldst thou counsel me to fall 

in love ? ' 
" Ay, madam ; so you stumble not unheed- 

fully." 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

3^anuars 20. 

Men. 

The man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man. 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 

Act III, Sc. I. 
i8 



^wo (Gentlemen of IDerona. 
Women. 

A woman sometimes scorns what best contents 

her : 
.... Scorn at first makes after-love the more. 
If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you ; 
If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone ; 
For get you gone, she doth not mean away ! 
Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their 

graces : 

Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' 

faces. 

Act III, Sc.i. 

5anuars 21. 

Men. 

Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. 

Act II, Sc, 2. 

Women. 

To be slow in words is a woman's. . . . virtue. 

Act III, Sc. I. 

5anuar)2 22. 

Men. 

" How know you that I am in love ? * 
" Marry, by these special marks : first, you 
^9 



tCwo Gentlemen of IDerona. 

have learned to relish a love-song like a robin- 
redbreast ; to walk alone like one that has the 
pestilence ; to sigh like a school-boy that has 
lost his A B C ; to fast, like one that takes 
diet ; to watch like one that fears robbing. 
You were wont, when you laughed, to crow 
like a cock ; when you walked, to walk like 
one of the lions ; when you fasted, it was pres- 
ently after dinner ; when you looked sadly, it 
was for want of money ; and now you are met- 
amorphosed with a mistress." 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Her beauty is exquisite, but her favor infinite. 

Aa II, Sc. 7. 

5anuar« 23. 

Men. 

We cite our faults, 
That they may hold excused our lawless lives. 

Ac^ IV, Sc. I. 

Women. 

O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's 

food ? 
Pity the dearth that I have pinbd in, 

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Comc&ij of JCcrorg. 

By longing for that food so long a time. 
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, 
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with 

snow, 
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. 

Act II, Sc. 7. 

January 24. 

Men. 

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. . . . 
O, they love least that let men know their 
love. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

She hath taught her suitor, 
He being her pupil, to become her tutor, 

Act II, Sc, I, 

ComeMs of Srrors. 

5anuarB 25. 

Men. 

Learn, sir, to jest in good time. 
There's a time for all things. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 
21 



ComcDiB ot ;6rror0. 

Women. 

The time was once, when thou unurged wouldst 

vow 
That never words were music to thine ear, 
That never object pleasing in thine eye, 
That never touch well-welcome to thy hand, 
That never meat sweet-savor'd in thy taste. 
Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved 

to thee. 
How comes it now, my husband, oh how comes 

it, 
That thou art thus estranged ? 

Act II, Sc. 2. 

5anuaci2 26. 
Men. 

Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than 

he's worth to reason. 
Nay, he's a thief too ; have you not heard 

men say. 
That Time comes stealing on by night and 

day ? . . . . 
There's no Time for a man to recover his hair, 

that grows old by nature. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 

22 



Come&i8 of Brrors. 

Women. 

Of excellent discourse : 
Pretty and witty : wild, and yet too, gentle. 

Act III, Sc. 7. 

5anuari2 27. 

Men. 

A mere anatomy .... 

A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 

A living dead man. 

Act V, Sc. I. 

Women. 

The venom clamors of a jealous woman 
Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. 

Act V, Sc. I. 

January 28. 
Men. 

One whose hard heart is button'd up with 

steel : 
A wolf, nay, worse, — a fellow all in buff ; . . . 
A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper. 

Act IV, Sc. 2. 

23 



ComeOie of JScrors. 

Women. 

Alas, poor women ! make us but believe, 
Being compact of credit, that you love us ; 
Though others have the arm, show us the 

sleeve ; 
We in your motion turn, and you may move 

us. 

Act III, Sc.2, 

^anuarig 29. 

Men. 

Slander lives upon succession ; 
For ever housed where it gets possession. 

Act III Sc. I. 

Women. 

Sweet mistress, (what your name is else, I 

know not) 
Less, in your knowledge and your grace, you 

show not. 
Thou our earth's wonder; more than earth 

divine. 
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and 

speak. 

Act III, Sc, 2, 

34 



ComeO)2 of Brrors. 

5anuan2 30. 

Men. 

A man is master of his liberty ; 

Time is their master ; and, when they see time, 

They'll go, or come. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Her fair sister, 
Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace, 
Of such enchanting presence and discourse, 
Hath almost made me traitor to myself. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

3^anuati8 31. 

Men. 

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye 
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky : 
The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, 
Are their males' subjects, and at their con- 
trols : 
Men, more divine, the masters of all these, 
Lords of the wide world, and wild watery seas, 
Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls. 
Are masters to their females, and their lords. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

«5 



ComeO^ of iBtxove* 

Women. 

Thou art an elm, my husband, I, a vine ; 
Whose weakness, married to thy stronger 

state, 
Makes me with thy strength to communicate ; 
If aught possess thee from me, it is dross ; 
Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss. 

Act I/, Sc. 2, 



tibc ^crrg Wiivce ot TKHinOsor. 

/iReasure tor ilfteasure. 

21 /iBiDsummer IRigbt's 2)ream. 

Ubere te a Mxib of cbaracter in tb^ Itfe 
■Cbat, to tbe observer, feotb tbr bistort 
fulls unfol6. 

Mtasurtjor Measure. Act /, .S"^. i. 



27 



Zbe jflbcrrs Wiivee of liminDsor. 
JFebruaris I. 
Men. 

They say, if money go before, all ways do lie 

open. 

Act /I, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

I know the young gentlewoman : she has 

good gifts .... Seven hundred pounds and 

possibilities. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

^cbruane 2. 

Men. 

An honest, willing, kind fellow .... no 
tell-tale, nor no breed-bate : his worst fault 
is .... he is something peevish ; but no- 
body but has his fault. 

Act I, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

She is pretty, and honest, and gentle ; and 
one that is your friend. 

Act /, Sc, 4. 
28 



3februar^ 3. 

Men. 

He hath but a little wee face, with a little 
yellow beard ; a Cain-colored beard. 

Act /, Sc. 4, 

Women. 

The warrant of womanhood, and the witness 
of a good conscience. 

Act IV, Sc. 2. 

ycbruar)2 4. 
Men. 

Wit may be made a Jack-a-lent, when 'tis 

upon ill employment. 

Act V, Sc. 5. 

Women. 

Go you, and where you find a maid, 
That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers 

said, 
Raise up the organs of her fantasy, 
Sleep she as sound as careless infancy ; 
But those that sleep, and think not on their sins, 
Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, 

and shins. 

Act V, Sc. J. 
29 



Zbc iSscn^mivce of MfnDsor. 

3Pebruars 5. 

Men. 

No man means evil but the devil, and we 
shall know him by his horns. 

Aa V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Better a little chiding than a great deal of 
heart-break. 

Aa V, Sc. 3. 

JFebruaris 6. 

Men. 

You are a gentleman of excellent breeding, 

admirable discourse, of great admittance, 

authentic in your place and person, generally 

allowed for your many warlike, courtlike, and 

learned preparations. 

Act n, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Wooing thee, I found thee of more value 

Than stamps in gold, or sums in sealed bags ; 

And 'tis the very riches of thyself. 

That now I aim at. 

Act III Sc. 4, 

30 



Aeadutc tor Measure. 

jfebruarij 7. 
Men. 

A man may be too confident. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

A kind heart he hath : a woman would run 
through fire and water for such a kind heart. 

Act III, Sc. 4. 

iSeasuve fox IDeasure. 

Ifebruarie 8. 

Men. 

Thyself and thy belongings 
Are not thine own so proper, as to waste 
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; 
Not light them for themselves : for if our 

virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike 
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely 

touch'd 
But to fine issues. 

Act /, Sc, /. 
31 



A^eadure tor iSscaenxc. 

Women. 

In her youth 
There is a prone and speechless dialect, 

Such as moves men. 

ActI,Sc.2. 

Jfcbruarig 9. 

Men. 

Good counsellors lack no clients : though 

you change your place, you need not change 

your trade. 

Act I, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

She hath prosperous art 

When she will play with reason and discourse, 

And well she can persuade. 

Ac^ /, Sc. 3. 

jfebtuaris to. 

Men. 

How would you be, 

If He, which is the top of judgment, should 

But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; 

And mercy then will breathe within your lips, 

Like man new made. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 

32 



/ibeadute (oc /Hbeaauce. 

Women. 

When maidens sue, 

Men give like gods ; but when they weep and 

kneel, 
All their petitions are as freely theirs 
As they themselves would owe them. 

Act /, Sc. s. 

3februars tl. 

Men. 

O, it is excellent 

To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 

To use it like a giant. 

Act II, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

The hand that hath made you fair hath 

made you good ; the goodness that is cheap in 

beauty, makes beauty brief in goodness ; but 

grace being the soul of your complexion, should 

keep the body of it ever fair. 

Act III., Sc. /. 

Jcbruarig 12. 
Men. 
Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we oft might win, 

By fearing to attempt. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

3 33 



ilBcasure tor /Ifteaeure. 

Women. 

It oft falls out, 
To have what we would have, we speak not 

what we mean : 
I sometimes do excuse the thing I hate. 
For his advantage that I dearly love. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Jfebruarg 13. 

Men. 

Could great men thunder 
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be 

quiet. 
For every pelting, petty officer 
Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing 
but thunder. 

Act II, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

True prayers, 

That shall be up at heaven, and enter there. 

Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls, 

From fasting maids, whose minds are dedicate 

to nothing temporal. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 
34 



fl^easure for /Rea6ute» 

jfebruar^ 14* 

Men. 

I love the people, 

But do not like to stage me to their eyes : 

Though it do well, I do not relish well 

Their loud applause, and aves vehement ; 

Nor do I think the man of safe discretion 

That does affect it. 

Act /, Sc, I, 

Women. 

I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted : . . . 
And to be talk'd with in sincerity, 
As with a saint. 

Act /, Sc. 4. 

Jfebruans \b. 

Men. 

'Tis one thing to be tempted, . . . 
Another thing to fall. 

Act II, Sc. /. 

Women. 

Be that you are, 
That is, a woman ; if you be more, you're 
none; 

35 



Measure for Measure. 

If you be one, (as you are well express'd 
By all external warrants,) show it now. 

Act II, Sc, 4. 

dfebruarg 16. 

Men. 

Man, proud man ! 
Dress'd in a little brief authority ; 
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, 
His glassy essence, like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, 
As make the angels weep. 

Act II, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

She speaks, and 'tis 
Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. 

Act II, Sc, 2. 

Jfebruars 17. 

Men. 

Happy thou art not ; 
For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to 

get; 
And what thou hast, forget 'st. 

Act III, Se. /. 
36 



/Sscnsuxc tor Measure. 

Women. 

Woman ! — Help Heaven ! Men their creation 

mar 
In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times 

frail ; 
For we are soft as our complexions are, 
And credulous to false prints. 

Ac^ II, Sc, 4. 

3februari2 18. 
Men. 

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful : 

Act III, Sc. 7. 

Women. 

She, having the truth of honor in her, hath 

made him that gracious denial which he is 

most glad to receive. 

Act III Sc. I, 

jpebcuatg 19. 

Men. 

O, what may man within him hide, 
Though angel on the outward side I 

Act III, Sc, 2, 
37 



Aeasure tor /l^eaaure. 

Women. 
I have heard of this lady, and good words 

went with her name. 

Aci III Sc. I, 

Jebruarg 20. 

Men. 
He who the sword of heaven will bear 
Should be as holy as severe ; 
Pattern in himself, to know, 
Grace to stand, and virtue go ; 
More nor less to others paying. 
Than by self-offences weighing. 
Shame to him, whose cruel striking 
Kills for faults of his own liking ! 

Act III, Sc, 2, 

Women. 
This virtuous maid 

Subdues me quite. 

Act n, Sc. 2. 

3Pcbruari2 21. 

Men. 

Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul, 

That apprehends no further than this world, 

And squar'st thy life according. 

Act V, Sc. /. 

38 



H /Ri&0ummer 'ttlfibt's Dream* 

Women. 
Show your wisdom, daughter, in your close 

patience. 

Act IK Sc. IIL 

H A^{^0ummer f^i^bt's S)ream. 

f cbruars 22. 

Men. 

To say the truth, reason and love keep little 

company together now-a-days. 

Act III Sc. I, 

Women. 

O happy fair ! 

Your eyes are lode-stars ; and your tongue's 

sweet air 

More tunable than lark to shepherd's ear, 

When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds 

appear. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Ifebcuatis 23* 

Men. 

Awake the p*irt and nimble spirit of mirth : 

Turn melancholy forth to funerals ; 

The pale companion is not for our pomp. 

Act /, Sc, /. 
39 



B ilBiDsummer WglyVe Dream, 

Women. 

In the modesty of fearful duty 
I read as much as from the rattling tongue 
Of saucy and audacious eloquence. 
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. 
In least speak most, to my capacity. 

Aa V, Sc. I. 

Jfcbmars 24, 

Men. 

His speech was like a tangled chain ; noth- 
ing impaired, but all disordered. 

Act V, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Be advised, fair maid : 
To you your father should be as a god. 

Acf I Sc. I. 

3Pebruavi2 25, 

Men. 

A good moral ... it is not enough to 
speak, but to speak true. 

Act V, Sc. /. 
40 



H fl!>f&6ummer WgbVB Dream* 
Women. 

We cannot fight for love, as man may do : 
We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

jfebruarisj 26. 

Men. 

This fellow doth not stand upon points. 
... He knows not the stop. 

Act V, Sc. I. 

Women. 

The imperial votaress passed on, 
In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : 
It fell upon a little western flower, 
Before milk-white, now purple with love's 

wound, 
And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 

Act If, Sc, I. 

3februan2 27. 

Men. 

The country proverb known. 
That every man should take his own. 
Act III, Sc, A 
41 



a ^iOBummct W^bVB Dream* 

Women. 

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd ! 

. . . And, though she be but little, she is fierce. 

Aa ///, Sc. 2, 

3februacs 28. 

Men. 

The will of man is by his reason sway'd. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

She hath blessed and attractive eyes. 

How came her eyes so bright ? 

Act II Sc. 2. 



flDarcb, 



ffbrxch Bdo Bbout taotbing* 
xrwelftb IWlabt. 
%ovc*e 1Labour'6 Xost. 

Oob l0 to be wor0bippe^ ; all men are not alffte* 

Mitch Ado A bout Nothing. A ct III, Sc. S- 



43 



/laucb BDo Bbout Botblnfi* 

/IBarcb I. 

Men. 

He hath borne himself beyond the promise 
of his age ; doing, in the figure of a lamb, the 
feats of a lion ; he hath, indeed, better bet- 
tered expectation. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Women. 

She cannot love, 

Nor take no shape nor project of affection. 

She is so self-endeared. 

Act III, Sc. I. 

Obtixcb 2. 

Men. 

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : I were 
but little happy if I could say how much. 
Lady, as you are mine, I am yours : I give 
away myself for you and dote upon the ex- 
change. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

By this day ! she's a fair lady : 

I do spy some marks of love in her. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

, 44 



/»ucb aoo about flotblng. 

^arcb 3. 

Men. 

God hath blessed you with a good name ; 
to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune. 

Act III, Sc. J, 

Women. 

The idea of her life shall sweetly creep 

Into his study of imagination ; 

And every lovely organ of her life 

Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, 

More moving-delicate and full of life, 

Into the eye and prospect of his soul. 

Aa IV, Sc, r, 

flbarcb 4. 

Men. 

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor 
into compliments, and men are only turned 
into tongue, and trim ones too. 

Act IV, Sc, I. 

Women. 

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore 1 
will die a woman with grieving. 

Act IV, Sc. I, 
45 



flSucb a&o about Motblitfi* 

/Ratcb 5» 

Men. 

Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love, 
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own 

tongues ; 
Let every eye negotiate for itself, 
And trust no agent ; for beauty is a witch 
Against whose charms faith melteth .... 
This is an accident of hourly proof. 

Act II, Sc. /. 

Women. 

Can virtue hide itself ? . . . graces will ap- 
pear, and there's an end. 

Aci II, Sc. 7. 

A^atcb 6» 

Men. 

A man to a man : stuffed with all honorable 
virtues. . . It is so, indeed ; he is no less than 
a stuffed man : but for the stuffing, — well, we 
are mortal. 

Act /, Sc, 7. 
46 



/IBucb B&0 Bbout motblna. 
Women. 

A kind overflow of kindness : there are no 
faces truer than those that are so washed. 
How much better is it to weep at joy than to 
joy at weeping ! 

Act I, Sc, I. 

flRarcb 7. 

Men. 
Who is his companion now t He hath every 
month a new sworn brother. . . . He wears 
his faith but as the fashion of his hat ; it ever 
changes with the next block. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Women. 

What, my dear Lady Disdain ! are you yet 
living ? 

Act I, Sc, I. 

jflBaccb 8. 

Men. 

From the crown of his head to the sole of 
his foot, he is all mirth : he hath twice or 
thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and the little 
hangman dare not shoot at him ; he hath a 
heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the 
47 



^ucb B5o Bbout BotbitiQ. 

clapper, for what his heart thinks his tongue 

speaks. 

Aci III Sc. 2. 

Women. 

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, 

than a man swear he loves me. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

/IBarcb 9. 

Men. 

I do much wonder that one man, seeing 
how much another man is a fool when he dedi- 
cates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath 
laughed at such shallow follies in others, be- 
come the argument of his own scorn by falling 

in love. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, 

Men were deceivers ever, 
One foot in sea and one on shore. 
To one thing constant never : 
Then sigh not so. 
But let them go, 

And be you blithe and fonny. 

Act 11, Sc. J. 
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/ISucb Ubo Bbout IRotbinfi. 
^arcb to. 

Men. 

Men 
Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief, 
Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting 

it, 
Their counsel turns to passion, which before 
Would give preceptial medicine to rage, 
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, 
Charm ache with air and agony with words : 
No, no ; 'tis all men's office to speak patience 
To those that wring under the load of sorrow, 
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency 
To be so moral when he shall endure 

The like himself. 

Aa V, Sc. I. 

Women. 

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. 

Ac^ 11, Sc, T. 

/ttarcb 11. 

Men. 

There was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the toothache patiently. 

Act V, Sc. I, 
4 49 



fl^ucb BOO Bbout motbinfl. 

Women. 

Methinks she's too low for a high praise, too 

brown for a fair praise, and too little for a 

great praise : only this commendation I can 

afford her, that were she other than she is, 

she were unhandsome ; and being no other but 

as she is, I do not like her. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

^arcb 12. 

Men. 

Dost thou think I care for a satire or an 
epigram ? No : if a man will be beaten with 
brains, a' shall wear nothing handsome about 
him. In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I 
will think nothing to any purpose that the 
world can say against it ; and therefore never 
flout at me for what I have said against it ; for 
man is a giddy thing, and this is my con- 
clusion. 

Act V, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

O god of love ! I know he doth deserve 
As much as may be yielded to a man. 

Act III, Sc. I, 
SO 



^welftb tiiQbU 

flSatcb 13» 

Men. 

To be generous, guiltless, and of free dis- 
position, is to take those things for bird-bolts 
that you deem cannon-bullets : there is no 
slander in an allowed fool, though he do noth- 
ing but rail ; nor no railing in a known dis- 
creet man, though he do nothing but reprove. 

Acl /, Sc. J. 

Women. 

She never told her love, 

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 

Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in 

thought ; 

And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 

She sat, like patience on a monument, 

Smiling at grief. 

Aa //, Sc. 4. 

/Aaccb 14. 

Men. 

However we do praise ourselves, 
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn. 
Than women's are. . . . 
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trwelftb migbt. 

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, 
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent : 
For women are as roses ; whose fair flower, 
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Women. 
Let still the woman take 
An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

^arcb 15. 

Men. 

The devil a puritan that he is, or anything 
constantly but a time-pleaser ; an affectioned 
ass, that cons state without book, and utters it 
by great swarths : the best persuaded of him- 
self, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellences, 
that it is his ground of faith that all that look 
on him love him. 

Act II, Sc. 3. 

Women. 
A lady ... of many accounted beautiful. . . 
She bore a mind that envy could not but call 
fair. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

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Cwelttb 1R(0bt. 

^arcb 16. 

Men. 

Look you nov;, he's out of his guard already ; 
unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, 
he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise 
men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no 
better than the fools' zanies. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

Women. 

'Twill endure wind and weather. — 
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 

Act I, Sc, s- 

/iBaccb 17. 

Men. 

God give them wisdom that have it ; and 
those that are fools, let them use their talents. 

Act /, Sc. J. 

Women. 

She'll not match above her degree, neither 
in estate, years, nor wit. 

Act l Sc. J. 
S3 



Xovc'6 %nbo\xv*6 %06t 

jflRarcb 18, 

Men. 

Behaviour, what wert thou, 
Till this man show'd thee ? and what art thou 
now? 

Aa V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Fair, gentle, sweet 
Your wit makes wise things foolish : . . . your 

capacity 
Is of that nature that to your huge store 
Wise things seem foolish and rich things but 

poor. 

Aci V, Sc. 2, 

/Hbarcb 19. 

Men. 

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity 
finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor 
such fanatical phantasimes ; such insociable 
and point-devise companions ; such rackers of 
orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he 
should say doubt ; det, when he should pro- 
nounce debt. 

Act V, Sc. /. 

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%ovc*B lLabour'0 %06U 

Women. 

Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face. 

Acl V, Sc. 2. 

^arcb 20. 
Men. 

His humour is lofty, his discourse peremp- 
tory. . . his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, 
and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, 
thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too 
affected, too odd, as it were, to peregrinate, 
as 1 may call it. 

Act K Sc. I. 

Women. 

A lady wall'd about with diamonds ! 

Act V, Sc, 2. 

^arcb 21. 

Men. 

I praise God for you, sir : your reasons at 
dinner have been sharp and sententious ; . . . 
witty without affection. . . learned without 
opinion, and strange without heresy. 

Act V, Sc, I. 
55 



%ovc's ^Labour's %obU 

Women. 

O queen of queens ! how far dost thou excel, 

No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal 

tell. 

Aa IV, Sc. J. 

/Rarcb 22. 

Men. 
These earthly godfathers of heaven* s lights 
That give a name to every fixed star 
Have no more profits of their shining nights 
Than those that walk and wot not what they 

are. 
Too much to know is to know nought but 

fame ; 
And every godfather can give a name. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Women. 
Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the 

brow. 

Act IV, Sc. I. 

^arcb 23* 

Men. 
Why, all delights are vain ; but that most vain. 
Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain. 

Act I, Sc. I. 
56 



%ovc'6 labour's %obU 

Women. 
My beauty, though but mean, 
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise : 
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, 
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. 

Aa II, Sc. I. 

fliarcb 24. 

Men. 

O, a most dainty man ! 

To see him walk before a lady and to bear 

her fan ! 
To see him kiss his hand ! . . . 
Ah, heavens, it is a most patheticai nit ! 

Act IV, Sc. 7. 

Women. 
By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infalli- 
ble ; true, that thou art beauteous ; truth itself, 
that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, 
beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth it- 
self. 

Act. IV, Sc. I. 

/IBarcb 25. 

Men. 

This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, . . . 

. . . The ladies call him sweet ; 
The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet : 
57 



Xove'0 Xabour*5 Xost. 

This is the flower that smiles on every one, 
To show his teeth as white as whale's bone. 

Act V, Sc, 2. 

Women. 

White-handed mistress, one sweet word with 

thee. 
Honey, and milk, and sugar ; there is three. 

Act V, Sc, 2, 

flbarcb 26. 

Men. 

This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas, 
And utters it again when God doth please : 
He is wit's pedler. . . 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud ; 
Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture 

shown, 
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

flbarcb 27. 

Men. 
They have been at a great feast of languages, 



Xoi?e'0 Xa bout's %OBt 

and stolen the scraps. — O, they have lived long 

on the alms-basket of words ! 

Ac^ V, Sc. I. 

Women. 
He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy ; 
And so she died : had she been light, like you, 
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit. 
She might ha' been a grandam ere she died : 
And so may you ; for a light heart lives long. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

/iRarcb 28. 

Men. 
A man of sovereign parts . . . 
Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. 
The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss, 
If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil, 
Is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a will ; 
Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still 

wills 
It should none spare that come within his 

power. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Be now as prodigal of all dear grace 
As Nature was in making graces dear, 
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Hove's Xabouv'6 Xost. 

When she did starve the general world beside, 
And prodigally gave them all to you. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

ilRarcb 29. 

Men. 
The mind shall banquet, though the body 

pine : 
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits 
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the 

wits. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

Women. 
If she be made of white and red. 

Her faults will ne'er be knovv'n. 
For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, 

And fears by pale white shown : 
Then if she fear, or be to blame, 

By this you shall not know, 

For still her cheeks possess the same 

Which native she doth owe. 

Act /, Sc. 2. 

/BSarcb 30. 

Men. 
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, 
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain ; 
6o 



%ovc'B Uabour'g Xoet. 

One whom the music of his own vain tongue 
Doth ravish, like enchanting harmon)^ ; 
A man of complements, whom right and wrong 
Have chose as umpire of their mutiny. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

Women. 

A child of our grandmother Eve, a female ; 
or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. 

Aa /, Sc. I, 

jflBarcb 31. 

Men. 

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs, 
And then grace us in the disgrace of death ; 
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, 
The endeavour of this present breath may buy 
That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen 

edge. 
And make us heirs of all eternity. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

Women. 

A maid of grace, and complete majesty. 

Ac, /. Sc, I, 



6i 



%9n\ 



B6 l^ou Xiftc ft. 

^be flbercbant ot X>cniC€, 



1 cbarge ^ou, Q women, for tbe love ^ou bear to men, to 
Ufte as mucb of tbese pla^s as please sou : and t cbarge sou, 
® men, for tbe love sou bear to women, . . . tbat between sou 
and tbe women, tbe plas mas please. 

As You Like It. EpUogM. 



63 



ne iou %iU irt. 

Bptil I. 

Men. 
As a walled town is more worthier than a 
village, so is the forehead of a married man 
more honourable than the bare brow of a 

bachelor. 

Aci III, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

A woman's thought runs before her actions. 

Act IV, Sc. I. 

Bpril 2. 

Men. 
Men are April when they woo, 

December when they wed. 

Act IV, Sc. I, 

Women. 
Maids are May when they are maids, but the 
sky changes when they are wives. 

Act IV, Sc, I, 

april 3. 

Men. 

Is he of God's making ? What manner of 

man ? Is his head worth a hat, or his chin 

worth a beard ? 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

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Women. 

If ladies be but young and fair, 
They have the gift to know it. 

Aci II, Sc. 7. 

april 4, 

Men. 

He^s gentle ; never schooled, and yet 

learned ; full of noble device ; of all sorts en- 

chantingly beloved. 

Act /, Sc, I. 

Women. 

Cel. Let us sit and mock the good house- 
wife, Fortune, from her wheel, that her gifts 
may henceforth be bestowed equally. 

Ros, I would we could do so ; for her benefits 
are mightly misplaced : and the bountiful blind 
woman doth most mistake in her gifts to 
women. 

Cel, 'Tis true : for those that she makes fair 
she scarce makes honest ; and those that she 
makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. 

Ros, Nay, now thou goest from fortune's 
office to nature's : fortune reigns in gifts of the 

world, not in the lineaments of nature. 

Act /, Sc. 2, 
5 65 



210 J^ou Xllie ft. 

Bprfl 5. 

Men. 

Always the dulness of the fool is the whet- 
stone of the wits. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

O, how full of briars is this working-day 
world ! 
They are but burs. ... if we walk not in 
the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch 

them. 

Act /, Sc. 3. 

Bpril 6. 

Men. 

Sweet are the uses of adversity ; 
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running 

brooks. 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

. . . Happy is your grace, 
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune 
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. 

Act II, Sc. I. 
66 



Us ^OVL Uifte ft. 

Women. 

Honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey 
a sauce to sugar. 

Aa III, Sc, 3, 

Bpril 7. 

Men. 

Have the grace to consider that tears do not 
become a man. 

Act III, Sc, 4, 

Women. 

And your experience makes you sad : I had 
rather have a fool to make me merry, than ex- 
perience to make me sad ! 

Aci IV, Sc. I. 

Bprll S. 

Men. 

Know you not, master, to some kind of men 
Their graces serve them but as enemies ? 
No more do yours : your virtues, gentle master, 
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. 
O, what a world is this, when what is comely 

Invenoms him that bears it. 

AcUl Sc, s, 
67 



as i^ou xme ft- 

Women. 

She is apter to do than to confess she does : 
that is one of the points in the which women 
still give the lie to their conscience. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Bptil 9. 

Men. 

Since the little wit that fools have was 

silenced, the little foolery that wise men have 

makes a great show. 

Act 1, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 

Act /. Sc. J. 

Bprfl 10 

Men. 

We, that are true lovers, run into strange 

capers ; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all 

nature in love mortal in folly. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

The people praise her for her virtues. 

Act /, Sc. s, 
68 



Bd ]i?ou Xffie irt. 

Bpdl II. 

Men. 

Those that are good manners at the court 
are as ridiculous in the country, as the be- 
haviour of the country is most mockable at the 
court. 

Act III, Sc\ 2. 

Women. 

Carve on every tree 
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Bpril 12. 

Men. 

The more one sickens the worse at ease he 
is ; and that he that wants money, means, and 
content, is without three good friends. 

Act in, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Do you not know I am a woman , When I 

think, I must speak. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 
. 69 



Bg ll?ou Xifte irt. 

Bpril 13, 

Men. 
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 
As man's ingratitude ; 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen, 
Although thy breath be rude. 

Act //, Sc. 7, 

Women. 
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it 
will out at the casement ; shut that, and 'twill 
out at the key-hole : stop that, 'twill fly with 
the smoke out at the chimney. 

Act IV, Sc. I, 

Bpril 14. 

Men. 
O, how bitter a thing it is to look into hap- 
piness through another man's eyes. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 
Time travels in divers paces with divers per- 
sons. . . . He trots hard with a young maid, 
between the contract of her marriage and the 
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Zbc ^ercbant of Venice. 

day it is solemnized : if the interim be but a 

se 'nnight, Time's pace is so hard that it seems 

the length of seven years. 

Ac^ III, Sc. 2. 

april 15. 
Men. 
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a 
poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster. 

Act V, Sc. 4. 

Women. 
From the east to western Ind, 
No jewel is like Rosalind. 
Her worth, being mounted on the wind 
Through all the world bears Rosalind. 
All the pictures, fairest lined, 
Are but black to Rosalind. 
Let no face be kept in mind, 

But the face of Rosalind. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 

Ufoe A)ctrcbant of Venice. 

april 16. 

Men. 
Now, by two-headed Janus, 
Nature hath fram'd strange^ fellows in her 
time: 

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^be /abcrcbant of Venice. 

Some that will evermore peep through their 

eyes, 

And laugh, like parrots at a bagpiper ; 

And other of such vinegar aspect, 

That they'll not show their teeth in way of 

smile. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

Women. 

She is fair, and, fairer than that word, 

Of wondrous virtues : sometimes from her 

eyes 
I did receive fair speechless messages. 

Act /, Sc. 2. 

Bpril 17. 

Men. 

You have too much respect upon the world : 

They lose it, that do buy it with much care : . . . 

Hold the world but as the world, . . . 

A stage, where every man must play a part. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Her sunny locks 
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. 

Act I, Sc. I. 
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Zbc ilRercbant of IDentce. 

april 18. 

Men. 

If to do were as easy as to know what were 

good to do, chapels had been churches, and 

poor men's cottages prince's palaces. It is a 

good divine that follows his own instructions : 

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be 

done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine 

own teaching. The brain may devise laws for 

the blood ; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold 

decree ; such a hare is madness, the youth, to 

skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the 

cripple. 

Acf /, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

While we shut the gate upon one wooer, 

another knocks at the door. 

Act /, Sc, 2. 

aprd 10. 

Men. 

Mark you this, . . , 
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 
An evil soul, producing holy witness, 
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^be /n^ercbant of Venice* 

Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; 

A goodly apple rotten at the heart : 

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 

Aci /, Sc\ J. 

Women. 

Let me give light, but let me not be light, 
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband. 

Aa V, Sc. I. 

Bpril 20. 
Men. 

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as 

false 
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins 
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, 
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as 

milk! 
And these assume but valour's excrement, 
To render them redoubted ! 

Ac^ III Sc. 2. 

Women. 

She is wise, if I can judge of her ; 
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true ; 
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^bc /IBercbant of IDenicc, 

And true she is, as she hath proved herself ; 
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair, and true 
Shall she be placed in my constant soul. 

Act II, Sc. 6. 

Bpril 21. 

MEN. 

The man that hath no music in himself. 

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet 

sounds. 

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 

The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 

And his affections dark as Erebus : 

Let no such man be trusted. 

Act V, Sc. /. 

Women. 

Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way 

Of starved people. 

Act V, Sc. I. 

Bpril 22. 

MEN. 

The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; 
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; 
It blesseth him that gives, and him that 
takes. . . . 

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tlbe jflftcrcbant of Venice* 

It is an attribute to God himself ; 
And earthly power doth then show likest 
God's 

When mercy seasons justice. 

^a IV, Sc. I, 

Women. 

A maiden hath no tongue but thought. 

Act HI, Sc, 2. 

Bptil 23. 
Men. 
The dearest friend . . . The kindest man, 
The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit 

In doing courtesies. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

'Tis a fair hand : 

And whiter than the paper it writ on 

Is the fair hand that writ. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Bpril 24. 

Men. 

I am married to a wife, 

Which is dear to me as life itself. 

Act II Sc. J, 
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B 'vailinter'6 ^ale. 

Women. 

For myself alone, 

I would not be ambitious in my wish, 

To wish myself much better ; yet for you 

I would be trebled twenty times myself ; 

A thousand times more fair, ten thousand 

times more rich ; 

That only to stand high in your account, 

I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, 

Exceed account : but the full sum of me 

Is sum of nothing ; which, to term in gross, 

Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised : 

Happy in this, she is not yet so old 

But she may learn ; then happier in this. 

She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; 

Happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit 

Commits itself to yours to be directed, 

As from her lord, her governor, her king. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 

H TKIlinter'fl Uale. 

april 25. 

Men. 

Prosperity's the very bond of love. 

Act IV, Sc, J. 

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Women. 

What you do 

Still betters what is done. W^hen you speak, 

sweet, 
I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, 
I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; 
Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, 
To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish 

you 
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that ; move still, still so 
And own no other function : each your doing, 
So singular in each particular, 
Crowns what you are doing in the present 

deeds, 

That all your acts are queens. 

Aa IV, Sc. 3. 

Bprfl 26» 

Men. 
How sometimes nature will betray its folly. 
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms ! Looking on the lines 
Of my boy's face, methought I did recall 
Twenty-three years, and saw myself un- 

breech'd, 
In my green velvet coat ; my dagger muzzled, 
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Lest it should bite its master, and so prove, 
As ornaments oft do, too dangerous. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

She was as tender 

As infancy and grace. 

Act V, Sc. J. 

Bpril 27. 

Men. 
How he glisters 
Thorough my rust ! and how his piety 
Does my deeds make the blacker ! 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 
Alas ! I have show'd too much 

The rashness of a woman. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Bpril 28. 
Men. 
I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful : 
In every one of these no man is free, 
But that his negligence, his folly, fear, 
Amongst the infinite doings of the world, 

Sometimes puts forth. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

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a Mtntcr's (Talc. 

Women. 

A lady's verily is 

As potent as a lord's. 

Act I, Sc, 2, 

aprfl 29. 

Men. 

Should all despair 

That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind 

Would hang themselves. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

I cannot say, 'tis pity 

She lacks instructions ; for she seems a mistress 

To most that teach. 

Act IV, Sc. J. 

aprtl 30. 

Men. 

I saw his heart in 's face. 

Act /, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Cram us wdth praise, and make us 
As fat as tame things : one good deed dying 
tongueless, 

8o 



B mtnter'B (Talc. 

Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. 
Our praises are our wages : you may ride us, 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 

Act J, Sc. 3. 



8i 



fIDat). 



(Taminfi of Zbc Sbrew* 
Bir6 'Omell Cbat BnDs mclL 
IkirxQ 5obn. 

Xc gtcat in act» as ^ou bave been in tboucjbt ; 
... So sball inferior e^cs, 
ti;bat borrow tbeir bcbaviourg from tbc great, 
(Brow great b^ ^our example, anb put on 
Zbe bauntless «pirit of resolution. 

JCtM£!' yokn, A ct V. Sc. r. 



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Z^miriQ of tbc Sbrcw. 

^as I. 

Men. 

Melanchol)' is the nurse of frenzy : 

Therefore . . . hear a play, 

And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, 

Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens 

life. 

Ittd. Sc. 2. 

Women. 

I saw sweet beauty in her face, 

... I saw her coral lips to move, 

And with her breath she did perfume the air : 

Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

^ai2 2. 

Men. 

Preposterous ass, that never read so far 
To know the cause why music was ordain'd ! 
Was it not to refresh the mind of man 
After his studies or his usual pain ? 
Then give me leave to read philosophy, 
And while I pause, serve in your harmony. 

' Act III, Sc. /. 
84 



a;amlnfl of tbc Sbrew. 

Women. 

Till the tears that she hath shed for thee 
Like envious floods, o'er-ran her lovely face 
She was the fairest creature in the world ; 
And yet she is inferior to none. 

Ind. Sc. 2. 

i*as 3. 

Men. 

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : 
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 

Act /, Sc. /. 

Women. 

Hearing of her beauty and her wit, 
Her affability and bashful modesty, 
Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour, 
I am bold to show myself a forward guest. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Men. 

Use your manners discreetly in all kind of 

companies. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

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Gamins of tbe Sbrew. 

Women. 

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

/Ras5. 

Men. 

Methinks he looks as though he were in love. 

Act III, Sc, I. 

Women. 

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, 
Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for 

thee, 
And for thy maintenance commits his body 
To painful labour both by sea and land ; 
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, 
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and 

safe; 
And craves no other tribute at thy hands 
But love, fair looks, and true obedience. 
Too little payment for so great a debt. 

Act V, Sc, 2. 
S6 



tramttifi ot tbc Sbrew. 

Men. 

'Tis age that nourisheth, 
But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth. 

Ac^ //, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Such duty as the subject owes the prince 
Even such a woman oweth to her husband ; 
And when she's froward, peevish, sullen, sour, 
And not obedient to his honest will, 
What is she but a foul contending rebel 
And graceless traitor to her loving lord. 
I am ashamed that woman are so simple 
To offer war, where they should kneel for 

peace, 
Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, 
When they are bound to serve, love and obey. 

Ac/ V, Sc. 2. 

HbTC^ 7. 

Men. 

'Tis deeds must win the prize 

Act II, Sc. 7. 

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earning of tbe Sbrew. 

Women. 

Young, budding virgin, fair and fresh and 

sweet, . . . 
Happy the parents of so fair a child ; 
Happier the man, whose favourable stars 
Allot thee for his lovely bride. 

Act IV, Sc. J, 

Men. 

Such wind as scatters young men through the 

world 
To seek their fortunes farther than at home, 
Where small experience grows. 

Act /, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courte- 
ous. 

But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time 
flowers : 

Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look 
askance, 

Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will, 

Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk, 
88 



Camino of tbe Sbrew. 

But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers, 
With gentle conference, soft and affable. 

Act IT, Sc. I. 



Men. 

Why, man, there be good fellows in the world. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Women. 

She is not froward, but modest as the dove ; 
She's not hot, but temperate as the morn. 

Act II, Sc I. 



fliag 10. 

Men. 

Even in these honest mean habiliments : 
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; 
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ; 
And as the sun breaks through the darkest 

clouds, 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 
What, is the jay more precious than the lark, 
Because his feathers are more beautiful } 

Act IV, Sc. J. 
89 



mVB men Cbat £nd0 TIClelL 

Women. 

Kindness in women, net their beauteous looks, 
Shall win my love. 

Ac/ IV, Sc: 2. 

Men. 
I am as peremptory as she proud-minded ; 
And where two raging fires meet together, 
They do consume the thing that feeds their 

fury : 
Though little fire grows great with little wind, 
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all : 
So I to her, and so she yields to me. 

Act II, Sc, I. 

Women. 
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale : 

. . . She looks as clear 
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. 

Act II, Sc. I. 
Birs TOlcII Ubat fin&s xmell. 

/iRas 12* 
Men. 
Moderate lamentation is the right of the 
dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. 

Act I, Sc. 7. 
90 



mVs men ^bat JBnDs melU 

Women. 

It were all one, 
That I should love a bright particular star, 
And think to wed it, he is so above me : 
In his bright radiance and collateral light 
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. 
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself 
The hind that would be mated by the lion 
Must die for love. 

Aci /, Sc. I. 



/Rai2 13, 

Men. 

He is very great in knowledge, and accord- 
ingly valiant. 

Aci II, Sc. 3. 



Women. 

What her is this ? 
Why, Doctor She. . . . 
... Her sex, her years, profession, 
Wisdom, and constancy, hath arranged me. 

Act II, Sc. I. 
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Bll'8 Well tTbat £nD6 Well, 
jflBais H. 

Men. 

Most it is presumption in us, when 
The help of Heaven we count the act of men. 

Act II, Sc. I, 

Women. 

Methinks, in thee some blessed spirit doth 

speak : 
His powerful sound within an organ weak ; 
And what impossibility would slay 
In common sense, sense saves another way. 
Thy life is dear ; for all, that life can rate 
Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate : 
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all 
That happiness and prime can happy call. 

Act II, Sc, I. 

iftaij 15. 

Men. 

Many a man's tongue shakes out his mas- 
ter's undoing. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 
92 



mVB men ZIbat iSn^e TimelL 

Women. 

Time will bring on summer, 
When briars shall have leaves as well as 

thorns, 
And be as sweet as sharp. 

Aa IV, Sc. 4. 

jfllSai? 16. 

Men. 

They say, miracles are past ; and we have 
our philosophical persons, to make modern 
and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. 
Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors ; en- 
sconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, 
when we should submit ourselves to an un- 
known fear. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Fair maid, send forth thine eye : this youthful 

parcel 
Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing 

. . . thy frank election make ; 
Thou hast power to choose. 

Act II, Sc. ji 
93 



mve mcii (Tbat Bnds mclU 
/lRai2 17. 
Men. 

Love is holy ; 
And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts 
That you do charge men with. 

Ac^ IV, Sc, 2. 

Women. 

I love him for his sake ; 
And yet I know him a notorious liar, 
Think him a great way fool, solely a coward ; 
Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, 
That they take place, when virtue's steely 

bones 
Look bleak i' the cold wind ; withal, full oft 

we see 
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. 

Act /, Sc. 7. 

/I&ai2 18. 

Men. 

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth 
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. 

Act IV, Sc. s, 
94 



mV9 imcn ^bat BnOs WiclU 

Women. 

Fair soul, 
In your fine frame hath love no quality ? 
If the quick fire of youth light not your mind, 
You are no maiden, but a monument : 
When you are dead, you should be such a one 
As you are now, for you are cold and stern. 

AaiV, Sc. 2. 



Men. 

Like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness 
Were in his pride or sharpness ; if they were, 
His equal had awaked them ; and his honour, 
Clock to itself, knew the true minute when 
Exception bid him speak, and at this time 
His tongue obey'd his hand : who were below 

him 
He used as creatures of another place ; 
And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks. 
Making them proud of his humility, 
In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man 
Might be a copy to these younger times. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 
95 



Bire tlSacU tTbat Bn&5 MclL 
Women. 

She herself, without other advantage, may 
lawfully make title to as much love as she 
finds. 

Act I, Sc. s. 

Men. 

Let me not live, : . . 
After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff 
Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses 
All but new things disdain ; whose judgments 

are 
Mere fathers of their garments ; whose con- 
stancies 

Expire before their fashions. 

Aci I, Sc. f. 

Women. 

It hurts not him 
That he is loved of me : . . . 
Nor would I have him, till I do deserve him ; 
Yet never know how that desert should be. 
I know I love in vain, strive against hope ; 
Yet, in this captious and intenible sieve, 
I still pour in the waters of my love, 
And lack not to lose still. Thus, Indian-like, 

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Bird "men Cbat iSn^e WiciL 

Religious in mine error, I adore 

The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, 

But knows of him no more. 

Ac/ /, Sc. 3. 

Men. 

Truly, if God have lent a man any manners, 
he may easily put it off at court. 

Act II, Sc, 2. 

Women. 

I play the noble housewife with the time 
To entertain 't so merrily with a fool. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 

flbais 22. 

Men. 
Sirrah, I write man ; to which title age can- 
not bring thee. 

Act II, Sc, 3. 

Women. 

She is young, wise, fair ; 
In these to nature she's immediate heir ; 
And these breed honour: that is honour's 

scorn, 

7 97 



mve -men trbat buds •cmcii. 

Which challenges itself as honour's born, 
And is not like the sire : honours thrive, 
When rather from our acts we them derive 
Than our fore-goers. 

. , . Virtue and she, 
Is her own dower. 

Aci //, Sc. s- 

^aij 23, 

Men. 

How mightily, sometimes, we make us com- 
fort of our losses I . . . 

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good 
and ill together : our virtues would be proud 
if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes 
would despair, if they were not cherished by 
our virtues. 

Aci JV, Sc. J, 

Women. 

The tenderness of her nature became as a 
prey to her grief ; in fine, made a groan of her 
last breath, and now she sings in heaven. 

Act IV, Sc. J, 
98 



UlVs Weil tTbat JBn^a mclU 

Men. 

I have but little more to say, sir, of his 

honesty : he has everything that an honest 

man should not have ; what an honest man 

should have, he has nothing. 

Aa IV, Sc. 3. 

Women. 
It was the death of the most virtuous gentle- 
woman, that ever nature had praise for creat- 
ing. . . . 'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good 
lady. We may pick a thousand salads, ere we 
light on such another herb. . . . Indeed, sir, 
she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or, 

rather the herb of grace. 

Act IV, Sc. 5. 

aba^ 25. 

Men. 

A man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

A wife 
Whose beauty did astonish the survey 
Of richest eyes; whose words all ears took 
captive ; 

99 



Iftinfi 5obn. 



Whose dear 


perfection, hearts that 


scorn 


'd 


to 


serve 
Humbly call'd mistress. 


Aci 


KSc, 


S- 




TRiitfl 3obn. 


Aay 26. 

Men. 











A sceptre, snatch'd with an unruly hand, 
Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd : 
And he that stands upon a slippery place 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

Act III, Sc. 4, 

Women. 

Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, 
And with the half-blown rose. 

Act III, Sc. I. 

flbas 27. 

Men. 

Before the curing of a strong disease, 
Even in the instant of repair and health 
The fit is strongest : evils, that take leave, 
On their departure most of all show evil. 

Act III, Sc. 4. 
100 



•Rtnfi 5obn. 

Women. 

Bind up those tresses : O, what love I note 
In the fair multitude of those her hairs ! 
Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen. 

Act ///, Sc. 4. 



ASai? 28. 

Men. 

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 
Act III, Sc. 4. 



Women. 

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, 
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, 
Remembers me of all his gracious parts, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; 
Then have I reason to be fond of grief. . . 
O Lord ! my boy, . . . my fair son ! 
My life, my joy, my food, my all the world ! 
My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure ! 

Act III, Sc. 4. 

lOI 



frtttfl 5obn. 

ISsny 29. 
Men. 
To avoid deceit I mean to learn ; 
For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising. 

Ac^ /, Sc. I, 

Women. 

A woman, naturally born to fears. 

Acf III, Sc. /. 

/IBay 30. 

Men. 
Who dares not stir by day must walk by night ; 
And have is have, however men do catch : 
Near or far off, well won is still well shot. 

Act I, Sc. 7. 

Women. 
He that perforce robs lions of their hearts, 

May easily win a woman's. 

ActlSc, I. 

/IBaiS 31. 

Men. 

And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter : 

For new-made honour doth forget men's 

names I 

Act I, Sc, 7, 

102 



Iking 5obn. 

Women. 

Make her rich 
In titles, honours, and promotions, 
As she is in beauty, education, blood. 

Ac( IL Sc, 2, 



103 



5Futie* 

Ikittd IRtchard tbe $econd. 

Iking Denrs the jfourtb, Ipatt f . Part If. 

Ctoilud and dressida. 



Wiclcomc CKCt itnilCB, 
Hn6 Jfarcwell aocB out efflbfna- 

Troilas and Cr$tsida. A ci III, Se. *. 



lOS 



tiim *Kicbar& ITir. 

June I. 

Men. 

The purest treasure mortal times afford 
Is spotless reputation ; that away, 
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 
A jewel in a ten-times barr'd-up chest 
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast, 
Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ; 
Take honour from me, and my life is done. 

Aci /, Sc. 7. 

Women. 

If of joy, being altogether wanting, 
It doth remember me the more of sorrow ; 
Or if of grief, being altogether had. 
It adds more sorrow to my want of joy : 
For what I have, I need not to repent; 
And what I want, it boots not to complain. 

Aci III, Sc. 4. 

3une 2. 

Men. 

What is six winters ? they are quickly gone, 
To men in joy ; but grief makes one hour ten, 

Act J, Sc, 3. 
Jp6 



1kina TRlcbarO ITl. 

Women. 

The trial of a woman^s war, 
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. 

Aci /, Sc. I. 

June 3. 

Men. 

All places that the eye of heaven visits 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : 
Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; 
There is no virtue like necessity. 

Ac/ 1, Sc, J. 

Women. 

She came adorned . . . like sweet May. 

Ac/ V, Sc. I. 

June 4. 

Men. 

They say the tongues of dying men 
Enforce attention, like deep harmony ; 
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent 

in vain ; 
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words 
in pain. 

Ac/ 1/, Sc. I, 
107 



Women. 

Comfort's in heaven ; and we are on the earth, 

Where nothing lives, but crosses, care, and 

grief. 

Act JI, Sc. 2, 

June 5. 
Men. 
Wrath-kindled gentleman, be ruled by me ; 
Let's purge this choler without letting blood : 
This we prescribe, though no physician ; 
Deep malice makes too deep incision : 
Forget, forgive, conclude, and be agreed. 

Act I, Sc. 7. 

Women. 

To be a make-peace shall become my age. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

June 6. 

Men. 
Woe doth the heavier sit. 
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. 

Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it 
To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou 
com'st. 

loS 



1ktnd l^icbarO ff * 

Suppose the singing birds, musicians ; 

The grass whereon thou tread'st, the presence 

strew'd ; 
The flowers, fair ladies ; and thy steps, no more 
Than a delightful measure, or a dance : 
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 
The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. 

Act I, Sc. J. 



Women. 

Love they to live, that love and honour have. 

Act II, Sc. I. 



June 7. 

Men. 

How sour sweet music is, 
When time is broke, and no proportion kept ! 
So is it in the music of men's lives. 

Act F, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 
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•Ring -RlcbarD Iff. 

June 8. 

Men. 
My fair name, 
Despite of Death, that lives upon my grave. 

Act I, Sc. /. 

Women. 

Joy absent, grief is present for that time. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

June 9. 

Men. 
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last ; 
For violent fires soon burn out themselves ; 
Small showers last long, but sudden storms 

are short ; 
He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes ; 
With eager feeding, food doth choke the 

feeder : 
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant. 
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 

Act II, Sc, I. 

Women. 
A long-parted mother with her child 
Plays fondly with her tears and smiles, in 

meeting. 

Act III, Sc, s. 
IIO 



June 10. 
Men. 

Deal mildly with his youth ; 
For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the 
more. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Your cares set up do not pluck my cares 

down. 
My care is loss of care, by old care done ; 
Your care is gain of care, by new care won : 
The cares I give I have, though given away. 

Act IV, Sc. /. 

June 11. 

Men. 

. . . Wise men ne'er wail their present woes, 
But presently prevent the ways to wail. 
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, 
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your 

foe, 
And so your follies fight against yourself. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 
III 



•Rmo Dcnry HX), part f . 

Women. 

He does me double wrong 
That wounds me with the flatteries of his 
tongue. 

Aci in, Sc. 2, 
Hinfl fjenr? VO, part f . 

5une 12. 
Men. 

I would thou and I knew where a commod- 
ity of good names were to be bought ! 

Act /, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

Constant you are , 
But yet a woman : and for secrecy, 
No lady closer; for I will believe 
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ; 
And so far will I trust thee. 

Act II, Sc. 3, 

5une 13. 

Men. 

'Tis no sin for a man to labour in his voca- 
tion. 

Act I, Sc. 2, 

112 



Iftinfi IbenrB W, pact K. 

Women. 

I will ease my heart, 
Although it be with hazard of my head. 

Aa /, Sc. 3. 

5une 14. 

Men. 

That ever, this fellow should have fewer 
words than a parrot, and yet the son of a 
woman ! 

Act. II, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

My condition 
. . . Hath been smooth as oil, soft as young 

down. 
And therefore lost that title of respect 
Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the 
proud. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

5une 15. 

Men. 

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no 
man regards it. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 
i«3 



Iklnfl "toenrs IflD, part f . 

Women. 

What a wasp-stung and impatient fool 
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood. 

Act I, Si. J, 

5une 10. 
Men. 

If all the years were playing holidays, 
To sport would be as tedious as to work ; 
But when they seldom come they wish'd-for 
come. 

Act I, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

Do you not love me ? do you not, indeed ? 
Well, do not then ; for, since you love me not, 
I will not love myself. 

Act II, Sc. s- 

5unc 17. 

MEN. 

Being daily swallow'd by men's eyes, 
They surfeited with honey, and began 
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a 

little 

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Denrg IVf pact ff . 

More than a little is by much too much. 
So, when he had occasion to be seen, 
He was but as the cuckoo is in June, 
Heard, not regarded. 

Ac^ HI, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

O, he's as tedious 
As is a tired horse, a railing wife; 
Worse than a smoky house : — I had rather live 
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, 
Than . . . have him talk to me, 
In any summer-house in Christendom. 

Act III, Sc. I, 

Ijcnrx t\), tavt 2. 

5une 18. 

Men. 

Rumour is a pipe 
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, 
And of so easy and so plain a stop 
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads. 
The still-discordant wavering multitude, 
Can play upon it. . . . 

. . . The posts come tiring on. 
And not a man of them brings other news 
1^5 



l)enr\2 Wy part Ht. 

Than they have learn'd of me : from Rumour't 

tongues 
They bring smooth comforts false, worse than 

true wrongs. 

Ind, 

Women. 
Open your ears : for which of you will stop 
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour 
speaks ? 

Ind. 

June 19 ♦ 
Men. 
This man's brow, like to a title-leaf, 
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume. 

Aa /, Sc. I. 

Women. 
Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful 
dove, or most magnanimous mouse. 

Acfl/I, Sc. 2. 

June 20. 
Men. 

Be honest, be honest ; and Heaven bless 

your expedition ! 

Aa /, Sc, 2. 
n6 



•fcentie tV. part f f , 

Women. 

Sec what a ready tongue suspicion hath ! 

Ac^ /, Sc. I. 

5unc 21. 

Men. 

All is well, keep it so ; wake not a sleeping 
wolf. 

Acf I, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

The first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remember'd knolling a departed friend. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

June 22» 

Men. 

He is a man, 
Who with a double surety binds his followers. 

Act I, Sc, I. 
"7 



I)enti2 ft), part f f . 

Women. 

So came I a widow ; 
And never shall have length of life enough, 
To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes. 

Act II, Sc.j, 

5unc 23. 

Men. 

There is not a white hair on your face but 
should have his effect of gravity. 

Act I, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

Loving wife, and gentle daughter, . . . 
Put not you on the visage of the times. 

Act II, Sc, J, 

5une 24. 

Men. 

A peace is of the nature of a conquest : 
For then both parties nobly are subdued, 

And neither party loser. 

Act IV, Sc. 3. 
ii8 



tTroflus an& (Ires6i&a. 

Women. 

You are the weaker vessel, as they say, the 

emptier vessel. 

Aci II, Sc. 4. 

Uroilua anb Cressi^a. 

5une 25, 

Men. 

Have you any discretion ? have you any 

eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not 

birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, 

learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, 

and so forth, the spice and salt that season a 

man? 

Aci /, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

Sorrow that is couch'd in seemmg gladness 
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. 

Act /, Sc, 7. 

5une 26. 

Men. 

This man . . . hath robbed many beasts of 
their particular additions ; he is as valiant as 
the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the ele- 
119 



Ztoilne and Ctedsida. 

phant: a man into whom nature hath so 

crowded humours, that his valour is crushed 

into folly, his folly sauced with discretion • 

there is no man hath a virtue that he hath not 

a glimpse of ; nor any man an attaint but he 

carries some stain of it ... he hath the joints 

of everything, but everything, so out of joint, 

that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and 

no use ; or purblinded Argus, all eyes and no 

sight. 

Act /, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Weaker than a woman's tear. 

Act I, Sc. I, 

5une 27» 

Men. 

He has a shrewd wit, . . . and he's man good 
enough : he has the soundest judgment . . . 
and he's a proper man of person. 

Act /, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Women are angels, wooing : 
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the 
doing ; 

lao 



Croilus an& Crc00i^a. 

That she belov'd knows nought that knows 

not this, — 
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is : 
That she was never yet that ever knew 
Love got so sweet, as when desire did sue : 
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach, — 
Achievement is command ; ungain\i^ beseech; 
Then though my heart's content firm love doth 

bear. 
Nothing of that shall from my eyes appear. 

Act /, Sc, J, 

June 28* 

Men. 

He that is proud eats up himself : pride is 
his own glass, his own trumpet, his own 
chronicle ; and whatever praises itself but in 
the deed, devours the deed in the praise. 

Act II, Sc, J, 

Women. 

Let her be as she is ; if she be fair 'tis the 
better for her; an she be not, she has the 
mends in her own hands. 

Act I, Sc. 7. 

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June 29. 

Men. 

Blind fear that seeing reason leads, finds 
safer footing than blind reason stumbling with- 
out fear ; to fear the worst oft cures the worst. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

To make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence. 

Act III, Sc, I, 

5une 30. 

Men. 

'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with 

fortune 
Must fall out with men too 

Act III, Sc. 3, 

Women. 

Though I loved you well, I woo'd you not ; 
And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man ; 
Or that we women had men's privilege 
Of speaking first. 

Act III Sc, 2. 



122 



Jul?. 



5ullu0 Caesar, 
antons anO Cleopatra. 
Otbello. 



'Cbe CTBC sees not itecU, 

Sut by reflection, by some otber tbinas. 

/«//m Catar, Act I, Sc. a. 



"3 



Snl^ I. 

Men. 

I cannot tell what you and other men 
Think of this life ; but, for my single self, 
I had as lief not be as live to be 
In awe of such a thing as I myself. 

Act /, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

How hard it is for women to keep counsel ! 

Act II, Sc. 4, 

Men. 

Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time : 
But men may construe things, after their fash- 
ion, 
Clean from the purpose of the things them- 
selves. 

Act /, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

I have a man's mind, but a woman's might. 

Act II, Sc. 4, 

124 



5uly 3. 

Men. 

... He loves to hear 
That unicorns may be betray'd with trees, 
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, 
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers : 
But when I tell him he hates flatterers, 
He says he does ; being then most flattered. 

Act II Sc. I, 

Women. 

My heart laments that virtue cannot live 
Out of the teeth of emulation. 

Aci II, Sc. J. 

Men. 

Men at some time are masters of their fates. 

Act I, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber : 
Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasies, 
Which busy care draws in the brains of men : 
Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. 

Act II, Sc, /, 



Men. 
Let me have men about me that are fat ; 
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights : 
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; 
He thinks too much : such men are dangerous. 

Aci I, Sc, 2. 

Women. 

O constancy, be strong upon my side ! 

Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and 

tongue ! 

Act II Sc. 4. 

Men. 
Thy heart is big ; get thee apart and weep. 
Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes, 
Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine, 

Begin to water. 

Aci III Sc. /. 

Women. 

Have you not love enough to bear with me, 

When that rash humour which my mother gave 

me 

Makes me forgetful ? 

Act IV, Sc. J, 

126 



5ul(U3 Caspar. 

Men. 

. . . O, that a man might know 
The end of this day's business ere it come ! 
But it sufficeth that the day will end, 
And then the end is known. 

Act V, Sc. I. 

Women. 
With meditating that she must die once, 
I have the patience to endure it now. 

Act IV, Sc. J. 

Suls 8. 

Men. 

There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to for- 
tune: 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 

Act. IV, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

. . . Steel with valour 
The melting spirits of women. 

Act II, Sc. I. 
127 



5ul^ 9. 

Men. 

It was but an effect of humour, 
Which sometimes hath his hour with every 
man. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

You have some sick offence within your mind, 
Which, by the right and virtue of my place, 
I ought to know of : and, upon my knees, 
I charm you, by my once-commended beauty, 
By all your vows of love and that great vow 
Which did incorporate and make us one. 
That you unfold to me, yourself, your half, 
Why you are heavy. 

Act II, Sc. I, 

5ulS 10. 

Men. 

His life was gentle ; and the elements 
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, 
And say to all the world, This was a ma?i / 

Act V, Sc. s- 
128 



5ul<u0 Cxeav, 

Women. 

My true and honourable wife ; 

As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 

That visit my sad heart. 

Act //, Sc, I. 

5uiB n. 

Men. 
Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Acf //, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Ah me ! how weak a thing 

The heart of woman is ! 

Ac/ II, Sc. 4, 

5ulB 12. 

Men. 
'Tis a common proof, 
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face : 
But when he once attains the utmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base de- 
grees 

By which he did ascend. 

Act II, Sc, I, 



5ultu6 Cxeau 

Women. 

Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose them : 
I have made strong proof of my constancy, 
Giving myself a voluntary wound. 

. . . Can I bear that with patience, 
And not my husband's secrets ? 

Acill, Sci, 

auis 13. 

Men. 

He reads much ; 
He is a great observer, and he looks 
Quite through the deeds of men ; . . . 

Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort 
As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit 
That could be moved to smile at anything. 
Such men as he be never at heart's ease, 
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves ; 
And therefore are they very dangerous. 

Act I, Sc, 2. 

Women. 

Dear my lord. 
Make me acquainted with your cause of grief. 

Aa II, Sc. 7. 
130 



5ullu6 Caesar. 

Men. 

'Tis meet 
That noble minds keep ever with their likes. 

Aa I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

I grant I am a woman ; but, withal, 

A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife : 

I grant I am a woman : but, withal, 

A woman well-reputed, — Cato's daughter. 

Think you I am no stronger than my sex, 

Being so father'd and so husbanded t 

Act JI, Sc. I. 

5uli3 15. 

Men. 

He will never follow anything 
That other men begin. 

Act II, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, 
Is it expected I should know no secrets 
That appertain to you ? Am I yourself 
But, as it were, in sort or limitation ; 
131 



Bntonis an^ Cleopatta. 

To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, 

And talk to you sometimes ? Dwell I but in 

the suburbs 

Of your good pleasure ? 

Act II, Sc, I. 

Bntons and Cleopatra. 

5ul^ 16. 
Men. 

We, ignorant of ourselves, 

Beg often our own harms, which the wise 

powers 

Deny us for our good ; so find we profit 

By losing of our prayers. 

Act II, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

As for my wife, 
I would you had her spirit in such another : 
The third o' the world is yours ; . . . 

. . . But not such a wife. 
Act II, Sc. 2, 

5uls 17. 

Men. 

His faults, in him, seem as the spots of 
heaven, 

132 



Bntotty an& Cleopatra. 

More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary, 

Rather than purchased ; what he cannot 

change, 

Than what he chooses. 

Act I, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

But that your royalty 

Holds idleness your subject, I should take you 

For idleness itself. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

5ul« 18. 

Men. 

Though it be honest, it is never good 
To bring bad news : give to a gracious mes- 
sage 
An host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell 

Themselves, when they be felt. 

Act II, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

Her beauty claims 
No worse a husband than the best of men : 
Her virtue, and general grace, speak 
That which none else can utter. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 
133 



Bntons and Cleopatra. 

Men. 

What, was he sad, or merry ? 
Like to the time o' the year between the ex- 
tremes 
Of hot and cold, he was not sad nor merry. 

Act /, Sc. J. 

Women. 
You shall be yet far fairer than you are. 

You shall be more beloving than beloved. 

Act /, Sc. 2, 

5ulS 20. 

Men. 

What our contempts do often hurl from us, 

We wish it ours again ; the present pleasure, 

By revolution lowering, does become 

The opposite of itself. 

Act /, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

Under a compelling occasion, let women die : 
... I have seen her die twenty times upon 
far poorer moment : I do think there is mettle 
134 



Bntoni2 an& Cleopatra. 

in death which commits some loving act upon 

her, she hath such a celerity in dying. She is 

cunning past man's thoughts. 

Act J, Sc. 2. 

5ulB 21. 

Men. 

These hands do lack nobility, that they strike 

A meaner than myself. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

Women. 
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety : other women cloy 
The appetites they feed : but she makes hun- 
gry 
Where most she satisfies. 

Act II, Sc,2, 

5ulB 22. 
Men. 

Our courteous Antony, 
Whom ne'er the word of No woman heard 

speak, 
Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the 

feast, 
And for his ordinary pays his heart 

For what his eyes eat only. 

^ Act II, Sc, 3, 

135 



antonis an& Cleopatra* 

Women. 

She did make defect, perfection. 

Act II Sc, 7, 

5uls 2Z. 
Men. 

If I lose mine honor 

I lose myself. 

Aci III, Se, 4. 

Women. 

The April 's in her eyes : it is love's spring. 

Act III, Sc, 1. 

5ulS 24, 

Men. 

Wisdom and fortune combating together, 

If that the former dare but what it can, 

No chance may shake it. 

Act III, Sc. II. 

Women. 

That time !— O times !— 

I laugh'd him out of patience ; and that night 

I laugh'd him into patience. 

Act II, Sc. J, 

136 



Men. 

'Tis the curse of service, 

Perferment goes by letter and affection, 

And not by old gradation, where each second 

Stood heir to the first. 

Aa /, Sc, I. 

Women. 

She is a most exquisite lady. 

Aa //, Sc. J. 

5ulB 26. 

Men. 

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 

Cannot be truly follow'd. 

Ac/ /, Sc. /. 

Women. 

Your daughter . . . 

. . . Hath made a gross revolt 

Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes 

In an extravagant and wheeling stranger, 

Of here and everywhere. 

Ac//, Sc, I, 

137 



^tbello. 

^ulB 27. 

Men. 

Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough, 
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor. 

Act III, Sc. J. 

Women. 

What an eye she has ! . . . 

An inviting eye ; and yet methinks right 

modest. 

Act //, Sc. J. 

5uli2 28. 

Men. 

Good name in man or woman, . , , 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls : 
Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis some- 
thing, nothing; 
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to 

thousands ; 
But he that filches from me my good name 
Robs me of that which not enriches him, 

And makes me poor indeed. 

Aci III, Sc. J, 



^tbello. 

Women. 

Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate 

creature. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

Men. 

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; 

It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock 

The meat it feeds on. 

Aci III Sc, 3, 

Women. 

. . , My wife is fair, feeds well, loves com- 
pany, 
Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances. 

Act III, Sc. 3. 

Men. 
Men's natures wrangle with inferior things. 
Though great ones are their object. 

We must not think men are gods. 

Act III, Sc. 4, 
139 



Women. 

When she speaks is it not an alarum to Iov« ) 

Act II, Sc, J, 

5uli2 31. 

Men. 

This fellow^s of exceeding honesty, 

And knows all qualities, with a learned 

spirit, 

Of human dealings. 

Act III, Sc. J. 

Women. 

O, the world hath not a sweeter creature ! 
... I do but say what she is : so delicate 
with her needle I an admirable musician ! O, 
she will sing the savageness out of a bear ! 
of so high and plenteous wit and invitation ! 

Act IV, Sc, /. 



14© 



Huau0t 



•Romeo anO Juliet. 

•Rfng Ibenr^ tbe Stitb— ipart f . 

•Rina t)enrietbe Sixtb— part ITf ♦ 



V^ew dob be prai^e^, tbat to believing eo\il§ 
<Mve» Iffibt in 5arftnc8«, comfort in fecapafi I 

^tfwrj' y I— Pari //. ^ <r^, // Se. I. 



241 



•Romeo ano Juliet 

BU0U6t I. 
Men. 

A man, . . . such a man 
As all the world — why, he's a man of wax. 

Act I, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

She'll not be hit 

With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit ; 

And, . . . from love's weak childish bow she 

lives unharm'd. 

She will not stay the siege of loving terms, 

Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, 

Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold : 

O, she is rich in beauty. 

Act I, Sc. 7. 

BUdU6t 2. 

Men. 

Love moderately ; long love doth so ; 

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 

Act II, Sc. 6. 

Women. 

She speaks ; 
O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art 
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, 
142 



"Komeo an& 5uliet» 

As is a winged messenger of heaven 
Unto the white upturned wandering eyes 
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him 
When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds 
And sails upon the bosom of the air. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 

Bufluet 3. 

Men. 
He was not born to shame : 
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit ; 
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd 
Sole monarch of the universal earth. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Her sorrow . . , 

Which, too much minded by herself alone, 
May be put from her by society. 

Act IV, Sc. I, 

auflust 4. 

Men. 
Tut, man ! one fire burns out another's burn- 
ing, 
One pain is lessened by another's anguish ; 
143 



TRomeo an& Juliet. 

Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turn- 
ing; 
One desperate grief cures with another's 

languish : 
Take thou some new infection to thy eye, 
And the rank poison of the old will die. 

Act /, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

She, 
She is the hopeful lady of my earth. 

Act /, Se. 2. 

BufiUSt 5. 

Men. 

^ To move is — to stir ; and to be valiant is — 
to stand ; therefore, if thou art moved, thou 
runn'st away. 

Act /, Sc. r. 

Women. 

Women, being the weaker vessels, are ever 
thrust to the wall. 

Act /, Sc, I. 
144 



U^omeo anO 5ulfet 

Budust 6. 
Men. 

He, his own affections' counsellor, 

Is to himself — I will not say how true — 

But to himself so secret and so close, 

So far from sounding and discovery, 

As is the bud bit with an envious worm, 

Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, 

Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. 

Act /, Sc. r. 

Women. 

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, 
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof ! 

Act I, Sc, I. 

Buaust 7. 

Men. 

Wisely and slow ; they stumble that run fast. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

Women. 

If thou think'st I am too quickly won, 
I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay. 
So thou wilt woo ; but else, not for the world. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 
10 145 



IRomco anD Juliet. 

Bugu0t 8. 

Men. 

You are a lover ; borrow Cupid's wings, 
And soar with them above a common bound. 

Act J, Sc, 4, 

Women. 

Is love a tender thing ? it is too rough, 
Too rude, too boisterous and it pricks, like a 
thorn. 

Act J, Sc. 4, 

2lUfiU0t 9* 

Men. 

What a change is here ! 
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, 
So soon forsaken ? young men's love then 

lies 
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. 

Aci II, Sc. J. 

Women. 

One fairer than my love ! the all-seeing sun 
Ne'er saw her match since first the world be- 
gun. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

146 



•Romeo anD Sultet. 

aufluat 10. 

Men 

He that is strucken blind cannot forget 
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost : 
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, 
What doth her beauty serve, but as a note 
Where I may read, who pass' d that passing 
fair ? 

Act I, Sc, I, 

Women. 

With unattainted eye, 
Compare her face with some that I shall show, 
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. 

Aci I, Sc. 2. 

Men. 

He jest at scars, that never felt a wound. 

Act II, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

Love ! Lord ! ay — husband, friend ! 
I must hear from thee every day in the hour. 
For in a minute there are many days. 

Act 'ill, Sc. J. 
H7 



IRomeo an& 5ulfet» 

HU9U5t 12. 
Men. 

A gentleman, . . . that loves to hear him- 
self talk ; and will speak more in a minute, 
than he will stand to in a month. 

Act J I, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, 
To merit bliss by making me despair. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

BU0U6t 13. 

Men. 

He bears him like a portly gentleman; 
... A virtuous and well-govern'd youth. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

Women. 

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright 1 
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear : 
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear ! 
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, 
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. 

Act /, Sc. J. 
14$ 



Komco an& 5uUet. 

Buflust 14. 

Men. 

You men, you beasts, 
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage 
With purple fountains issuing from your veins. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Women. 

She speaks, yet she says nothing : what of 

that? 

Her eye discourses. 

Act II, Sc, 2. 

Bugust 15. 

Men. 

Art thou a man ? thy form cries out thou art : 
Thy tears are womanish. 

Act III, Sc. J, 

Women. 

Heaven and yourself 
Had part in this fair maid ; now heaven hath 

all, 
And all the better it is for the maid : 
Your part in her you could not keep from 
death ; 

149 



IRomeo an& 5ulfct. 

But Heaven keeps his part in eternal life. 
The most you sought was her promotion. 
For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced ; 
And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced 
Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? 

Act IV, Sc. 5. 

Bugust 16. 

Men. 
Is your man secret ? Did you ne'er hearsay — 
Two may keep counsel, putting one away ? 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Women. 
Here comes the lady : O, so light a foot 
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint: 
A lover may bestride the gossamers 
That idles in the wanton summer air, 
And yet not fall ; so light is vanity. 

Act II, Sc, 6. 

Buflust 17. 

Men. 
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, 
Brags of his substance, not of ornament : 
They are but beggars that can count their 
worth. 

Act II, Sc. 6. 
150 



IRomeo anO Juliet. 

Women. 

Trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true 

Than those that have more cunning to be 

strange. 

Act II, Sc, 2. 

Buguet 18. 

Men. 

O, he's a lovely gentleman ! 

... An eagle. . . 
Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye. 

Act III, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven. 
Having some business, do intreat her eyes 
To twinkle in their spheres till they return. 
What if her eyes were there, they in her 

head? 
The brightness of her cheek would shame 

those stars, 

As daylight doth a lamp ; her eyes in heaven 

Would through the airy region stream so bright 

That birds would sing and think it were not 

night. 

Act II, Sc. 2, 



tkliifi Ibenns Df,— ©art f . 

BUdU6t \9» 

Men. 

An honest gentleman, and a courteous, and 
a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, a 
virtuous. 

^<r/ //, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Death lies on her like an untimely frost 
, Upon the sweetest flower of all the field 

Aa IV, Sc. s. 

Vtina Ibenrv DH.— part t, 

BUfiUSt 20. 

Men. 

His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire, 
More dazzled and drove back his enemies 
Than midday sun fierce bent against their 

faces. 
What should I say ? his deeds exceed all 

speech : 
He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered. 

Act I Sc. /. 



Iktnfi Ibenrg IDH^-lpart IT, 
Women. 

Thy wife is proud ; she holdeth thee in awe, 
More than God or religious churchmen may. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

Bugust 2U 

Men. 

Glory is like a circle in the water, 
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself 
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

These women are shrewd tempters with their 

tongues. 

Act /, Sc. 3. 

Bugudt 22* 

Men. 

Though thy speech doth fail, 
One eye thou hast to look to heaven for 

grace : 
The sun with one eye vieweth all the world. 

Act /, Sc, 4. 
^53 



Ikfna Ibenrs m,~ part IT. 

Women. 

When a world of men 
Could not prevail with all their oratory, 
Yet hath a woman's kindness over-ruled. 

Aa I/, Sc, 2 

Bugudt 23. 

Men. 

Between two hawks, which flies the higher 
pitch ; 

Between two dogs, which hath the deeper 
mouth ; 

Between two blades, which bears the better 
temper ; 

Between two horses, which doth bear him best ; 

Between two girls, which hath the merriest 
eye; 

I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judg- 
ment ; 

But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, 

Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. 

Act JI, Sc. 4, 

Women. 

Your cheeks do counterfeit our roses. 

Act II, Sc, 4, 



•Rina 1bcnr^ IDIT.— ipart f . 
Bugust 24. 

Men. 

I have no power to let her pass ; 
My hand would free her, but my heart say; 

no. 
As plays the sun upon the glassy streams, 
Twinkling another counterfeited beam, 
So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. 
Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak : 
I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind. 

Aci V, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd ; 
She's a woman, therefore to be won. 

Act V, Sc. 3. 

BuQUst 25. 
Men. 

A man just and upright. 

Act III, Sc. I. 

Women. 

The chief perfections of that lovely dame, 
(Had I sufficient skill to utter them,) 
Would make a volume of enticing lines, 
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Iklns Ibenrg Dir.— ipart inr» 

Able to ravish any dull conceit : 
And, which is more, she is not so divine, 
So full-replete with choice of all delights, 
But, with as humble lowliness of mind, 
She is content to be at your command. 

Act V, Sc, jr. 

Wng 1benr« DH.— ipart inr. 

Buaust 26, 

Men. 

Small curs are not regarded when they grin ; 
But great men tremble when the lion roars. 

Aci I/I, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Her grace in speech, 
Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty, 
Makes me from wandering fall to weeping 

joys ; 
Such is the fulness of my heart's content. 

Ac/ I, Sc. I. 

BU0U6t 27. 
Men. 
A7»^. But what a point, my lord, your fal- 
con made, 
A^nd what a pitch she flew above the rest I — 

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f^ing Ibcncg IDf.— part HIT. 

To see how God in all His creatures works ! 
Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. 

Srcf. No marvel, . . . 
They know their master loves to be aloft, 
And bears his thoughts above his falcon's 
pitch. 
Glou, My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble 
mind 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 

Act II, Sc. /. 

Women. 

Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell : 
I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

BudU6t 28. 

Men. 

A crafty knave does need no broker. 

Act I, Sc, 9, 

Women. 

Being a woman, I will not be slack 
To play my part in Fortune's pageant. 

Act I, Sc. 2, 
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•Ring iPenrg IDIT.— part fff. 

BuQugt 29. 
Men. 

Pride went before, ambition follows him. 

Act I, Sc.i. 

Women. 

O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord, 
Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts. 

Aa /, Sc. 2, 

BudUdt 30. 

Men. 

What stronger breastplate than a heart un- 
tainted ? 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

The trust I have is in mine innocence, 
And therefore am I bold and resolute. 
Act IV, Sc. 4. 

ausu0t 31. 

Men. 

Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born 

man, 
And find no harbour in a royal heart. 

Act III, Sc. /. 
158 



mrxQ Denrg IDIT.— part iriT. 
Women. 

O Lord, that lends me life, 
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness ! 
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face, 
A world of earthly blessings to my soul, 
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 

Ac^ /, Sc, 7. 



IS9 



September. 



•Ring Ibenr^ tbc Siitb-lPart IFirir. 
Iking IRlcbarD tbc ^TbirD, 
•King Ibenr^ tbe ;eigbtb. 

Udbat is pomp, rule, xclgn, but cartb an* ttust ? 
Hn6, live vce bow we can, ijet ^fe we must. 

^»«^ Henrj^ th* Sixth— Part III. Act T, Sc. a. 



II i6i 



mriQ Dents \Dir.-S>art Ifinr. 

September 1. 

Men. 

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 
But cheerily seek how to redress their harms. 

Aa V, Sc. 4. 

Women. 
Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud ; 

'Tis virtue that doth make them most ad- 
mired ; 
The contrary doth make them wonder'd at : 
'Tis government that makes them seem divine. 

Act /, Sc. 4, 

September 2. 
Men. 

See how the morning opes her golden gates, 
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun ! 
How well resembles it the prime of youth, 
Trimm'd like a younker, prancing to his love. 

Act II, Sc. I, 

Women. 

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. 

Act /, Sc. 4. 
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Iking Ibcnrs UIT.— ipart iriri[» 

September 3, 
Men. 

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

Act V, Sc. 6. 

Women. 

Her looks do argue her replete with modesty ; 
Her words do show her wit incomparable ; 
All her perfections challenge sovereignty. 

Act III, Sc, 2, 

September 4, 

Men. 

I may conquer fortune's spite 
By living low, where fortune cannot hurt me. 

Act. IV, Sc. 6. 

Women. 

Courage . . . what cannot be avoided 
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. 
Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit 
Should, if a coward heard her speak these 

words, 
Infuse his breast with magnanimity. 

Act V, Sc, 4, 
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IRfng Ibenrs lD1I.-fi^art HITir. 
September 5. 

Men. 

Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade 
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, 
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy 
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? 
O, yes, it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. 
And to conclude, the shepherds' homely 

curds. 
His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle. 
His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, 
All which secure and sweetly he enjoys. 
Is far beyond a prince's delicates. 
His viands sparkling in a golden cup. 
His body couched in a curious bed, 
When care, mistrust, and treason waits on 

him. 

Act II, Sc, s. 

Women. 
She's a woman to be pitied much : 

Her tears will pierce into a marble heart ; 
The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn. 

Act III, Sc. I. 
164 



•Rinfi IRfcbacO "ffinr. 

$cptember 6. 

Men. 

His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to- 
day ; 
There's some conceit or other likes him well, 
When he doth bid good-morrow with such 

a spirit. 
I think there's never a man in Christendom 
That can less hide his love or hate than he ; 
For by his face straight shall you know his 
heart. 

Aa III, Sc. 4, 

Women. 

Within so small a space, my woman's heart 
, . . Grew captive to his honey words. 

Act JV, Sc. I. 

September 7. 

Men. 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's 

wings ; 

Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures 

kings. 

Act V, Sc. 2, 



•Ring lR(cbar& f HIT. 

Women. 

Bear with her weakness, which, I think, pro- 
ceeds 

From wayward sickness, and no grounded 
malice. 

Act I, Sc. J, 

September 8. 

Men. 

We will not stand to prate ; 
Talkers are no good doers ; . . . 
We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 

Act I Sc. J. 

Women. 

She hath a pretty foot, a cherry lip, a bonny 

eye, a passing pleasing tongue. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

September 9. 

Men. 

They that stand high have many blasts to 
shake them ; 

And if they fall, they dash themselves to 
pieces. 

Act I, Sc. J, 
i66 



IkinQ 1Ricbar& -ffirir. 

Women. 
She may help you to many fair preferments ; 
And then deny her aiding hand therein, 
And lay those honours on your high deserts. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

September 10. 

Men. 
Because I cannot flatter, and speak fair, 
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, 
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, 
I must be held a rancorous enemy. 
Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm, 
But thus his simple truth must be abused 
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks ? 

Act 1 Sc. s. 

Women. 
Teach not thy lips such scorn ; for they were 

made 
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. 

Aa I, Sc. 2. 

September 11. 

Men. 
Since every Jack became a gentleman, 
There's many a gentle person made a Jack. 

Act I, Sc. J. 



1Rln0 IRfcbarD IFirir. 

Women. 
Your beauty . . . did haunt me in my sleep, 

As all the world is cheered by the sun, 
So I by that : it is my day, my life 

Act I Sc. -?. 

September 12. 
Men. 
What is done cannot be now amended : 
Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, 
Which after hours give leisure to repent. 

Act IV, Sc. 4. 

Women. 
A daughter call'd Elizabeth, 
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious. 
Act IV, Sc. 4. 

September 13. 

Men. 
Princes have but their titles for their glories, 
An outward honour for an inward toil ; 
And, for unfelt imagination, 
They often feel a world of restless cares : 
So that, betwixt their titles, and low name, 
There's nothing differs but the outward fame. 

Act /, Sc, 4. 
168 



Ikins IRicbarD tfirir. 

Women. 

Madam, have comfort : all of us have cause 

To wail the dimming of our shining star ; 

But none can cure their harms by wailing 

them. 

Act II, Sc, 2. 

September H. 

Men. 
O momentary grace of mortal men, 
Which we more hunt for than the grace of 

God! 

Act III, Sc. 4, 

Women. 
Go, . . . mother, to thy daughter go ; 
Make bold her bashful years with your expe- 
rience, 
Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale. 

Act IV, Sc. 4, 

September 15. 
Men. 

I have heard that fearful commenting 
Is leaden servitor to dull delay ; 
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. 

Act IV, Sc. J. 
169 



I^ins Denrg IDHirir. 

Women. 

Shallow, changing woman ! 

Act IV, Sc. 4, 

•Ring Ibenrie 1D1F1I1F. 

September 16. 

Men. 

That churchman bears a bounteous mind in- 
deed, 
A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us ; 
His dews fall everywhere. 

Men of his way should be most liberal ; 

They are set here for examples. 

Act I, Sc. J, 

Women. 

She is a gallant creature, and complete 

In mind and feature. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

September 17. 
Men. 

Fling away ambition : 
By that sin fell the angels; how can man 
then, 

170 



Iking Ibenry IDff IT. 

Thy image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? 
Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that 

hate thee ; 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear 

not : 

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 

Thy God's, and truth's. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Two women placed together makes cold 

weather. 

Act /, Sc. 4. 

September 18. 

Men. 

Envy and crooked malice nourishment, 

Dare bite the best. 

Act V, Sc. J. 

Women. 
By my troth, and maidenhead, 
I w^ould not be a queen. 

. . . Verily, 
. . . 'Tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
171 



ttirxQ tbenrs l)iririr. 

Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

September 19, 

Men. 

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; 

Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading: 

Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; 

But to those men that sought him sweet as 

summer. 

Act IV, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

All the virtues that attend the good, 
Shall still be doubled on her: truth shall 

nurse her, 

Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her : 

She shall be loved and fear'd : her own shall 

bless her. 

Act V, Sc. J. 

September 20. 

Men. 
The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare 

speaker ; 
To nature none more bound ; his training 
such, 

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That he may furnish and in struct great teach- 
ers, 

And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet 
see, 

When these so noble benefits shall prove 

Not well disposed, the mind growing once 
corrupt. 

They turn to vicious forms, ten times more 

ugly 

Than ever they were fair. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness. 
Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like govern- 
ment. 
Obeying in commanding. 

Act JI, Sc. 4. 

September 21, 

Men. 

Things done well, 

And with a care, exempt themselves from 

fear ; 

Things done without example, in their issue, 

Are to be fear'd. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

173 



mrxQ Ibenrs mtH. 

Women. 

So good a lady that no tongue could ever 

Pronounce dishonour of her ; by my life, 

She never knew harm-doing. 

Aci II, Sc. 3. 

September 22» 

Men. 

This imperious man will work us all 
From princes into pages : all men's honours 
Lie like one lump before him, to be fashion'd 
Into what pitch he please. 



Act II, Sc. 2, 



Women. 



I have perused her well ; 
Beauty and honour in her are so mingled. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

September 23. 

Men. 

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well : 
And yet words are no deeds. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 
174 



Women. 

Her 

That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years 

About his neck, yet never lost her lustre ; 

Of her that loves him with that excellence 

That angels love good men with ; even of her 

That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls, 

Will bless. 

Acf II, Sc. 2. 

September 24, 

Men. 

The force of his own merits makes his way. 

Act /, Sc, /. 
Women. 
You wrong your virtues 
With these weak woman's fears : a noble 

spirit. 
As yours was put into you, ever casts 
Such doubts, as false coin, from it. 

Act III, Sc. 7. 

September 25. 
Men. 

We must not stint 
Our necessary actions, in the fear 
To cope malicious censurers ; which ever, 
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Iking tbenns IDHITir. 

As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow 
That is new trimm'd, but benefit no further 
Than vainly longing. What we oft do best, 
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is 
Not ours, or not allow'd ; what worst, as oft, 
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up 
For our best act. If we shall stand still, 
In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at, 
We should take root here where we sit, or sit 
State-statues only. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Heaven bless thee ! 
Thou hast the sweetest face . . . 
. . . She is an angel. 

Act IV, Sc, I, 

September 26* 

Men. 
His own opinion was his law : 

His promises were, as he then was, mighty ; 
But his performance, as he is now, nothing. 

Act IV, Sc. 2. 
176 



Iking Ibenr^ IDiriTIT. 

Women. 

A constant woman to her husband, 
One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleas- 
ure; 
And to that woman, when she has done most, 
Yet will I add an honour, a great patience. 

Act III, Sc. I. 

September 27. 

Men. 

Be advised ; 
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself : we may outrun, 
By violent swiftness, that which we run at, 
And lose by over-running. Know you not, 
The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er, 
In seeming to augment it, wastes it ? 

Act I, Sc, I, 

Women. 

That primest creature 

That's paragon'd o' the world. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

September 28. 

Men. 

Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 

This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth 

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The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blos- 
soms, 

And bears his blushing honours thick upon 
him ; 

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, 

And, when he thinks, good easy man, full 
surely 

His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, 

And then he falls, as I do. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

What fair lady's that ? 

By heavens, she is a dainty one, — 

Sweetheart. 

Act /, Sc. 4. 

September 29. 

Men. 

Stay, my lord, 
And let your reason with your choler ques- 
tion 
What 'tis you go about : to climb steep hills 
Requires slow pace at first : anger is like 
A full-hot-horse, who being allow'd his way, 

Self-mettle tires him. 

Act I, Sc. /. 

178 



mm 1benr^ mtt. 

Women. 

Who ever yet 
Have stood to charity, and display'd the 

effects 
Of disposition gentle, and of wisdom 

O'ertopping woman's power. 

Aa II, Sc. 4, 

Septemljer 30» 

Men. 

We all are men, 

In our natures frail, . . . 

. . . Few are angels. 

Act V, Sc. J. 

Women. 

You, that have so fair parts of woman on you, 
Have too a woman's heart ; which ever yet 
Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty; 
Which, to say sooth, are blessings. 

Ac/ II, Sc. J, 



m 



©ctoben 



Ibamlet, iprlnce of Benmarft. 
Iking Ibenrg tbc Jpiftb* 

Ublngs must be as tbe? mais : . . . Ubougb patience be a 
tired mare, ^et ebe will plod. 

Kin^ Henry the Fifth. A ci II, Sc. a. 



i8i 



Damlct* 

October t. 

Men. 
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption 

tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. 

Act I, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

Whose worth, if praises may go back again, 

Stood challenger on mount of all the age 

For her perfections. 

Act IV, Sc. 7, 

October 2. 

Men. 

Beware of entrance to a quarrel ; but being 

in, 
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Lay her i' the earth ; 
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh 
May violets spring ! . . . 
A ministering angel shall my sister be. 

Act V, Sc. I. 
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•fcamlct. 

©ctober 3. 

Men. 

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice ; 
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg- 
ment. 

Act I, Sc. 3. 

Women. 

O rose of May ! 
Dear maid, kind sister, . . . 
O heavens ! is't possible, a young maid's v.its 
Should be as mortal as an old man's life ? 

Act IV, Sc. J. 

©ctober 4. 

Men. 

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 

But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ; 

For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

Act /, Sc, s- 

Women. 

The queen, his mother, 

Lives almost by his looks. 

Act IV, Sc. 7. 

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Ibamlet. 

©ctobec 5. 

Men. 

Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 

Act I, Sc. J, 

Women. 

Your ladyship is nearer heaven than when 

I saw you last. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 

©ctober 6. 

Men. 

This above all : to thine own self be true, 
And it must follow, as the night the day. 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

Act /, Sc, 3. 

Women. 

What a treasure had he. . . 
. . . One fair daughter, and no more, 
The which he loved passing well. 

Act II, Sc. 2. 
184 



Ibamlct. 

©ctoljcr 7» 

Men. 

Odd's bodikins, man, . . . use every man 
after his desert, and who should 'scape whip- 
ping ? 

Act II, Sc. 2, 



Woman. 

We are oft to blame in this, — 

*Tis too much proved — that, with devotion's 

visage 

And pious action we do sugar o'er 

The devil himself. 

Act IIL Sc, 7. 



©ctober 8. 

Men. 

An absolute gentleman, full of most ex- 
cellent differences, of very soft society and 
great showing : indeed, to speak feelingly of 
him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for 
you shall find in him the continent of what 

part a gentleman would see. 

Act V. Sc. 2. 

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Ibamlet. 

Women. 

When sorrows come, they come not single 

spies, 

But in battalions ! 

Act IV, Sc. s. 

October 9. 

Men. 
What is a man. 
If his chief good and market of his time 
Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. 
Sure, he that made us with such large dis- 
course, 
Looking before, and after, gave us not 
That capability and god-like reason 

To fust in us unused. 

Act IV, Sc. 4, 

Woman. 
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : 
Words, without thoughts never to heaven go. 

Act III, Sc. 3, 

October 10. 

Men. 
There are more things in heaven and earth, . . . 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

Act I, Sc. s- 
186 



f)amlet* 

Women. 

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are 

fear ; 

Where little fears grow great, great love grows 

there, 

Act III, Sc, 2. 

©ctober XI. 
Men. 
What a piece of work is a man ! how noble 
in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form 
and moving how express and admirable ! in 
action how like an angel ! in apprehension 
how like a god ! the beauty of the world ! the 

paragon of animals ! 

Act II, Sc. 2, 

Women. 
Women's fear and love holds quantity ; 
In neither aught, or in extremity. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 

October 12. 

Men. 
Let your own discretion be your tutor : suit 
the action to the word, the word to the 

action. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 
187 



Ibamlet. 

Women. 
What to ourselves in passion we propose, 
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. 
The violence of either grief or joy 
Their own enactures with themselves destroy. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 

October 13. 

Men. 
So, oft it chances in particular men, 
That for some vicious mole of nature in them. 
As, in their birth — wherein they are not guilty. 
Since nature cannot choose his origin — 
By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, 
Oft breaking down the pales and forts of 

reason, 
Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens. 
The form of plausive manners, that these men. 
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect. 
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, — 
Their virtues else — be they as pure as grace, 
As infinite as man may undergo — 
Shall in the general censure take corruption 
From that particular fault : the dram of ill 
Doth all the noble substance often doubt 

To his own scandal. 

Act /, Sc. 4, 
1S8 



Damlet. 

Women. 

Frailty, thy name is woman ! 

Act /, Sc. 2, 

October 14» 

Men. 

'Tis not alone my inky cloak, . . . 
Nor customary suits of solemn black, 
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, 
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye. 
Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage. 
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of 

grief, 
That can denote me truly : these indeed seem, 
For they are actions that a man might play : 
But I have that within which passeth show ; 
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 

Act I, Sc, -?. 

Women. 

To the noble mind, 
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove un- 
kind. 

Act III, Sc, I, 
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©ctober 15. 

Men. 

He was a man, take him for all in all. 

Act I, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden pres- 
ence ; 
Set your entreatments at a higher rate 
Than a command to parley. 

Act I, Sc. J. 



©ctober 16. 

Men. 

I hold ambition of so airy and light a qual- 
ity, that it is but a shadow's shadow. 

Act II, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

If you be honest and fair, your honesty 
should admit no discourse to your beauty. 

Act III, Sc. 7. 
190 



IDamlct, 

©ctober 17. 

Men. 

A man that fortune's buffets and rewards 

Hast ta'en with evil thanks : and blest are 
those, 

Whose blood and judgment are so well com- 
mingled, 

That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 

To sound what stop she please. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow. 

Act III, Sci. 

©ctober 18. 

Men. 

A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent 
fancy. 

Act y, Sc. 7, 

Women. 

I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers 
Could not, with all their quantity of love. 
Make up my sum. 

Act V, Sc. I. 
191 



Ibamlct. 

©ctobcr 19. 

Men. 

Let us know, 

Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 

When our deep plots do pall : and that should 

teach us 

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 

Rough-hew them how we will. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 
God has given you one face, and you make 
yourselves another : you jig, you amble, and 
you lisp, and nickname God's creatures. 

Act III, Sc. I. 

©ctober 20. 

Men. 

A man's life's no more than to say, " One." 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our 

own : 
So think thou wilt no second husband wed ; 
But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is 

dead. 

Act III, Sc, 2. 
193 



Ibamlet. 

©ctober 21. 
Men. 

'Tis a question left us yet to prove, 
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. 
The great man down, you mark his favourite 

flies; 
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. 
And hitherto doth love on fortune tend ; 
For who not needs shall never lack a friend, 
And who in want a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his enemy. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

A mother . . . nature makes them partial. 

Act III, Sc, J. 

©ctober 22. 

Men. 

Every man has business and desire, 
Such as it is. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

Women. 

If he says he loves you. 
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it 
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Ibamlet* 

As he in his particular act and place 
May give his saying deed. 

And keep you in the rear of your affection, 
Out of the shot and danger of desire. 
The chariest maid is prodigal enough. 

Act I, Sc. s. 

Qctobct 23. 

Men. 

To divide him inventorially, would dizzy the 
arithmetic of memory. . . . But, in the 
verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of 
great article. 

Acl V, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. 

Act V, Sc. 2, 

Iking Ibenr^s ID. 

©ctobcr 24. 

Men. 

Heaven doth divide 
The state of man in divers functions, 
Setting endeavour in continual motion ; 
194 



ftfttQ Ibcnns ID. 

To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, 
Obedience : for so work the honey-bees ; 
Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach 
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 

Act I, Sc, 2, 

Women. 

A woman's voice may do some good, 
When articles too nicely urg'd be stood on. 

Act V, Sc, 2, 

©ctobcr 25. 

Men. 

In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh 
The enemy more mighty than he seems. 

Act II, Sc, 4, 

Women. 

What says she, fair one t that the tongues 
of men are full of deceits t 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

(October 2a* 

Men. 

He hath a killing tongue and a quiet sword ; 
by the means whereof 'a breaks words, and 
195 



keeps whole weapons. ... He hath heard 
that men of few words are the best men. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Gentlewomen, that live honestly by the 
prick of their needles. 

Act II, Sc. A 

©ctober 27* 

Men. 

Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep : 
advantage is a better soldier than rashness. 

Act III, Sc, 6, 

Women. 

There is flattery in friendship. 

Act III, Sc, 7. 

October 28. 

Men. 

These fellows of infinite tongue, that can 
rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do 
always reason themselves out again. What ! 
a speaker is but a prater ; a rhyme is but a 

ballad. ... A black beard will turn white ; 
196 



IkiriQ 1bcnr^ \t). 

a CLirlcd pate will grow bald ; a fair face will 
wither ; a full eye will wax hollow ; but a good 
heart is the sun and the moon ; or rather, 
the sun, not the moon ; for it shines bright, 
and never changes, but keeps his course 
truly. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Terms, 
Such as will enter at a lady's ear. 
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart ? 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

October 29. 

Men. 

There is some soul of goodness in things evil. 
Would men observingly distil it out ; 
For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, 
Which is both healthful and good husbandry : 
Besides, they are our outward consciences, 
And preachers to us all ; admonishing 
That we should dress us fairly for our end. 
Thus may we gather honey from the weed, 
And make a moral of the devil himself. 

Act IV, Sc, I, 
197 



lkim Ibenrg it). 

Women. 
An angel is like you, and you are like an 

angel. 

Act V, Sc. 2, 

©ctober 30. 

Men. 

O hard condition ! twin-born with greatness, 

What infinite heart's ease must kings neglect, 

That private men enjoy ? 

And what have kings that privates have not 

too, 
Save ceremony, save general ceremony ? 
And what art thou, thou idol ceremony ? 

O ceremony, show me but thy worth ? 

What is thy soul of adoration ? 

Art thou aught else but place, degree, and 

form, 
Creating awe and fear in other men ? 
Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd 
Than they in fearing. 
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage 

sweet, 

But poison'd flattery ? 

Act IV, Sc. I, 
198 



Icins Dents 11>. 

Women. 

Thy voice is music. 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

©ctober 31, 

Men. 

I know no ways to mince it in love, but 
directly to say — I love you : then, if you urge 
me further than to say — Do you in faith } I 
wear out my suit. Give me your answer : i* 
faith do ; and so clap hands and a bargain : 
how say you, lady ? 

Act V, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

God, the best maker of all marriages, 

Combine your hearts in one, . . . 

As man and wife, being two, are one in love, 

Receive each other ! — God speak this Amen ! 

Act V\ Sc, 2. 



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IRovember^ 



Corfolanu0. 
fkinQ Xear. 
tTitus Hndronfcu0. 



Ibave more t^an tbou sbowe&t, 
Speaft less tban tbou ftnowest. 

King- Lear— Act /, Sc. 4 



201 



Coriolanu0» 

Men. 

He has grown too proud to be so valiant. 

Such a nature, 
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow 
Which he treads on at noon. 

Act I, Sc. /. 

Women. 

You would be another Penelope : yet they 
say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence 
did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Come ; I 
would your cambric were sensible as your 
finger, that you might leave pricking it for 
pity. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

•Kovembet 2. 

Men. 

Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the 

ignorant 
More learned than the ears. 

Act III, Sc. 2. 
202 



Cotfolanua. 

Women. 

Noble lady ! 

. . . Speak fair : you may salve so, 

Not what is dangerous present, but the loss 

Of what is past. 

Act III, Sc, 2. 

flovembcr 3« 

Men. 

He hath been used 
Ever to conquer, and to have his worth 
Of contradiction : being once chafed, he can- 
not 
Be rein'd again to temperance : then he speaks 
What's in his heart. 

Act III, Sc, s- 

Women. 
I have a heart as little apt as yours, 
But yet a brain that leads my use of anger 
To better vantage. 

Act III, Sc, 2, 

"Wovembcr 4. 

Men. 

Where is your ancient courage ? you were used 

To say, extremity was the trier of spirits ; 

203 



Corlolanus. 

That common chances common men could 

bear ; 
That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike 
Show'd mastership in floating. 

Act IV, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Mother, 
Resume that spirit, when you were wont to 

say, 
If you had been the wife of Hercules, 
Six of his labours you'd have done, and sav'd 
Your husband so much sweat. 

Act IV, Sc, I. 

flovcmber 5. 

Men. 
Now we have shown our power. 
Let us seem humbler after it is done, 
Than when it was a doing. 

Act. IV, Sc. 2, 

Women. 
Tell these sad women, 
'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, 

As it is to laugh at them. 

Act IV, Sc. I, 
204 



Corlolanus. 

November 6. 

Men. 

O, world, thy slippery turns ! Friends now 

fast sworn, 
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart. 
Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal, and 

exercise, 
Are still together, who twin, as 't were, in 

love 
Unseparable, shall within this hour, 
On a dissension of a doit, break out 
To bitterest enmity : so, fellest foes, 
Whose passions and whose plots have broke 

their sleep 
To take the one the other, by some chance, 
Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear 

friends. 
And interjoin their issues. 

Aa IV, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

Ladies, you deserve 
To have a temple built you. 

Act V, Sc. J, 
205 



Corfolanue. 

November 7. 

Men. 

I knew by his face that there was something 
in him : he had, sir, a kind efface, methought, 
— I cannot tell how to term it. . . . He is 
simply the rarest man in the world. 

Act IV, Sc. J. 

Women. 
You are manifest housekeepers. 

What are you sewing here ? 

Act I, Sc. J. 

•Wovcmbei: 8. 
Men. 
A worthy officer ; ... but insolent, 
O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all think- 
ing, 
Self-loving. 

Act IV, Sc. 6. 

Woman. 

Do you know this lady ? 

. . . Chaste as the icicle, 
That's curded by the frost from purest snow. 

Act V, Sc. J. 
2o6 



Ikins Xear. 

•Wovembet 9. 

Men. 

So we'll live, 
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and 

laugh 
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues 
Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them 

too, — 
Who loses, and who wins : who's in, who's 

out, 
And take upon us the mystery of things. 
As if we were God's spies. 

Woman. 

I love you more than word can wield the 

matter. 

Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty ; 

Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare ; 

No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, 

honour. 

Aa I, Sc. I, 

IRovcmbcr 10. 

Men. 
I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a 
curious tale in telling it, and deliver a plain 
207 



message bluntly; that which ordinary men 

are fit for I am qualified in : and the best of 

me in diligence. 

Ac^ I, Sc. 4. 

Women. 
Proper deformity seems not in the fiend 

So horrid as in woman. 

Act IV, Sc. 2. 

November 11. 

Men. 

O, sir, to wilful men, 

The injuries that they themselves procure 

Must be their schoolmasters. 

Act II, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

She, . . . your best object, 

The argument of your praise, balm of your 

age, 

The best, the dearest. . . . 

Act I, Sc, I. 

IWovembcr 12. 

Men. 
He that has and a little tiny wit, — 

With heigh, ho, the wind and the rain, — 
208 



tiirxQ Uear. 

Must make content with his fortunes fit, 
Though the rain il raineth every day. 

Aa III, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

Thy truth then be thy dower. 

Act /, Sc, I, 



movember 13, 

Men. 

This is the excellent foppery of the world ! 
that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the 
surfeit of our own behaviour.) we make guilty 
of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : 
as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by 
heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and 
treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunk- 
ards, liars, ... by an enforced obedience of 
planetary influence ; and all that we are evil 
in, by a divine trusting on. 

Act I, Sc. 2. 

Women. 

Who covers faults at last shame them derides. 

Act /, Sc, /. 
14 209 



Ikins Xcac. 

Men. 

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a 
beggar ? . . . And the creature run from the 
cur ? There thou mightst behold the great 
image of authority ; a dog's obeyed in office. 

Act IV, Sc. 6. 

Women. 

She shook 
The holy water from her heavenly eyes, 
And clamour moisten'd : — then away she 

started 
To deal with grief alone. 

Aa IV, Sc. J. 

•Wovember 15. 

Men. 

Through tattered clothes small vices do ap- 
pear; 

Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin 
with gold, 

And the strong lance of justice hurtless 
breaks ; 

Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. 

Acf IV, Sc. 6. 

210 



ftftid Xear. 

Women. 

Patience and sorrow strove 
Who should express her goodliest. You have 

seen 
Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and 

tears 
Were like a better day : Those happy smilets, 
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to 

know 
What guests were in her eyes ; which parted 

thence, 
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. — In brief, 

sorrow 
Would be a rarity most belov'd, if all 
Could so become it. 

Act IV, Sc. J. 

tiovcmbct 10. 

Men. 

A man may see how this world goes, with 
no eyes. Look v/ith thine ears : see how 
yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. 
Hark, in thine ear : Change places ; and, 
handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is 
the thief ? 

Act IV, Sc. 6, 

211 



Women. 

O undistinguish'd space of woman's will ! 

Aa IV, Sc. 6, 

November 17« 

Men. 

Know thou this, — that men 

Are as the time is. 

Ac/ V, Sc, 3. 

Women. 

Thou hast a daughter, 
Who redeems nature from the general curse. 

Act IV, Sc. 6. 

Bovemljet 18. 

Men. 

Some good I mean to do, 

Despite of mine own nature. 

Act V, Sc. 3 

Women. 

We are not the first, 

Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the 

worst. 

Act V, Sc. 3. 

212 



•ftfnfl Xeat. 

•Wovember 19. 

Men. 

Wise men are grown foppish, 
They know not how their wits to wear, 
Their manners are so apish. 

Act I, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. 

Act V, Sc. J. 

IKlovcmbcr 20, 

Men. 

I do profess to be no less than I seem ; to 
serve him truly that will put me in trust ; to 
love him that is honest ; to converse with him 
that is wise, and says little. 

A very honest-hearted fellow. 

Act I, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

Love's not love 
When it is mingled with regards that stands 
213 



Xritus BnOronfcus. 

Aloof from the entire point. Will you have 

her? 

She is herself a dowry. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

Uftug Bnferonfcua. 

IRovember 2\, 

Men. 

King, be thy thoughts imperious, like thy name. 
Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it ? 
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, 
And is not careful what they mean thereby, 
Knowing that with the shadow of his wings 
He can at pleasure stint their melody. 

Act IV, Sc. 4, 

Women. 
Be unto us as is a nurse's song 
Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep. 

Act II, Sc, J, 

•Wovcmbcr 22. 

Men. 
We are but shrubs ; no cedars we, 
No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size ; 
But metal, . . . steel to the very back. 

Act IV, Sc. 3. 
214 



G;itu6 BnDronicus. 

Women. 

Fresh tears 
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew 
Upon a gather'd hly almost wither'd. 

Act III, Sc. I, 

.flovembcr 23. 

Men 

I have heard my grandsire say full oft, 
Extremity of griefs would make men mad. 

Act JV, Sc, /. 

Women. 

I blush . . . 

Why, there's the privilege your beauty bears : 

Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with 

blushing 
The close enacts and counsels of the heart ! 

Act IV, Sc, 2. 

"Wovembet 24. 

Men. 

Alas, poor man ! grief has so wrought on him, 
He takes false shadows for true substances. 

Act III, Sc. 2, 
215 



Zit\x6 BnDronlcus. 

Women. 

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, 
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. 

Aci II, Sc, 4. 

flovcmber 25. 

Men. 

You must resolve, 
That what you cannot as you would achieve, 
You must perforce accomplish as you may. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Do thou . . . show a woman's pity, 

Act II, Sc. s. 

November 26. 

Men. 

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. 

Act I, Sc. I, 

Women. 

Wherefore look'st thou sad, 
When everything doth make a gleeful boast ? 
216 



coitus Bn5ron(cu0. 

The birds chant melody on every bush, 

The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind 
And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground. 

Act II, Sc. 3, 

"Wovember 27. 

Men. 
Brother, for in that name doth nature plead, — 
Father, and in that name doth nature speak. 

Act /, Sc. I. 

Women. 

My compassionate heart 
Will not permit mine eyes once to behold 
The thing whereat it trembles by surmise. 

Act II, Sc. J. 

November 28. 

Men. 
Thanks to men of noble minds is honourable 

meed. 

Act I, Sc. I. 

Women. 

A goodly lady, ... of the hue 
That I would choose, were I to choose anew. 

Act I Sc. I. 
217 



^itud Bndtonicud. 

movember 29* 

Men. 

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. 

Women. 

Madam, stand resolved, but hope withal. 

Act I, Sc. /. 

November 30. 

Men. 

Let my father's honours live in me. 

Act I, Sc. I, 

Women. 

She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won ; 
She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. 

Act II, Sc. I, 



3lS 



2)ecember^ 



C)3mbelfne. 

poems anD Sonnets. 



TRUben we sball bear 
Ube rain and wind beat ^arf^ December, bow, 
. . . Sball we 6igcouise 
TTbe fzeejing boui0 awa^ 2 

Cymbeline, A ct III, Sc. 3. 



219 



December 1. 
Men. 

A courtier, 
Although they wear their faces to the bent 
Of the king's looks, hath a heart that is not 
Glad at the thing they scowl at. 

Ac/ 1, Sc. I. 

Women. 

Your lady 
Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon. 
And therewithal the best : or let her beauty 
Look through a casement to allure false hearts. 
And be false with them. , 

Ac/ II, Sc, 4, 

December 2. 

Men. 

To apprehend , . , 
Draws us a profit from all things we see: 
And often, to our comfort, shall we find 
The sharded beetle in a safer hold 
Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O this life 
Is nobler, than attending for a check ; 
Richer, than doing nothing for a bribe; 
220 



C^mbeUne. 

Prouder, than rustling in unpaid-for silk : 
Such gains the cap of him that makes him 

fine, 
Yet keeps his book uncross'd. 

Acl III, Sc. J, 

Women. 

O, 

Men's vows are women's traitors ! 

Act III, Sc. 4, 

December 3. 

Men. 

One of your great knowing 
Should learn, being taught forbearance. 

Act II, Sc. J, 

Women. 

She's fair and royal ; 
She hath all courtly parts more exquisite 
Than lady, ladies, woman ; from every one 
The best she hath, and she, of all compounded, 
Outsells them all : I love her therefore. 

Ac/ III, Sc. s» 

S2Z 



CBmbelinc. 

©ecember 4. 

Men. 

Poor fools 
Believe false teachers. Though those that are 

betray'd 
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor 
Stands in worse case of woe. 

Act III, Sc. 4. 

Women. 

Forbear sharp speeches to her : She's a lady 
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
And strokes death to her. 

Act III, Sc. s. 

2)ecembet 5, 

Men. 

I consider, 
By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death 
Will seize the doctor too. 

Act V, Sc. J. 

Women. 

Our very eyes, 
Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. 

Act IV, Sc. 2. 
222 



C^mbeline, 

December 6. 

Men. 

Doubts by time let them be clear'd : 
Fortune brings in some boats that are not 
steer'd. 

Act IV, Sc, s 

Women. 

Mine eyes 
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful ; 
Mine ears, that heard her flattery ; nor my 

heart, 
That thought her like her seeming : it had 

been vicious 
To have mistrusted her. 

Act V, Sc, J. 

December 7. 

Men. 

He is one 
The truest manner'd : such a holy witch, 
That he enchants societies unto him : 
Half all men's hearts are his. 

Act I, Sc, 6, 
223 



Women. 

The walls of thy dear honour ; keep unshak'd 
That temple, thy fair mind. 

Act II, Sc, 7. 

December 8. 

Men. 

What shalt thou expect, 

To be depender on a thing that leans, — 

Who cannot be new built, nor has no friends, 

So much as but to prop him ? 

Act I, Sc, J. 

Women. 

A lady, that disdains 

Thee, and the devil alike. 

Act I, Sc. 6, 

December 9, 

Men. 

This gentleman, . . . How worthy he is I 

will leave to appear hereafter, rather than 

story him in his own hearing. 

Act I, Sc. J-. 

224 



C^mbcUne. 

Women. 

Fair, virtuous, wise, chaste, constant, quali- 
fied, and less attemptable, than any, the rarest 
of our ladies. 

Act I Sc. 4, 

December 10. 

Men. 

He was then of a crescent note ; expected to 

prove so worthy as since he hath been allowed 

the name of : but I could then have looked on 

him without the help of admiration ; though 

the catalogue of his endowments had been 

tabled by his side, and I to peruse him by 

items. 

Act J, Sc. J, 

Women. 

Fortify her judgment, which else an easy 

battery might lay flat. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

Becembec ll« 

Men. 

He ... is a creature such 
As to seek through the regions of the earth 
15 225 



For one his like, there would be something 

failing 
In him that should compare. I do not think 
So fair an outward, and such stuff within. 

Endows a man but he. 

Act 1 Sc. I. 

Women. 

She shines not upon fools, lest the reflection 

should hurt her. 

Act /, Sc, 3, 

December 12, 

Men. 

He is a man worth any woman. 

Act I, Sc. I, 

Women. 

Her beauty and her brain go not together : 
she's a good sign, but I have seen small reflec- 
tion of her wit. 

Act I, Sc. J. 

December 13. 

Men. 

My queen ! my mistress ! 
O, lady, weep no more ; lest I give cause 
226 



Clgmbellne. 

To be suspected of more tenderness 
Than doth become a man ! I will remain 
The loyalist husband that did e'er plight troth. 
My residence in Rome, . . . 

. . . Thither write, my queen, 

And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you 

send, 

Though ink be made of gall. 

Act /, Sc, 2, ' 

Women. 

O dissembling courtesy ! How fine this 

tyrant 

Can tickle where she wounds ! 

Act /, Sc, 2. 

December 14. 

Men. 

He liv'd in court, 
(Which rare it is to do,) most prais'd, most 

loved ! 
A sample to the youngest ; to th' more ma- 
ture 
A glass that feated them ; and to the graver, 
A child that guided dotards : to his mistress — 
, , , Her own price 

227 



C^mbelfne. 

Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his 

virtue ; 
By her election may be truly read 
What kind of man he is. 

Act /, Sc, J, 



Women. 

You shall not find me, . . 
After the slander of most step-mothers, 
Evil-ey'd unto you. 

Act /, Sc, 2. 



2)ecembcr 15. 

Men. 

He sits *mongst men, like a descended god : 
He hath a kind of honour sets him off, 
More than a mortal seeming. 

Act /, Sc, d. 

Women. 

Fear and niceness, — the handmaids of all 
women, or, more truly, women its pretty self. 

Act III, Sc. 4. 
228 



Ciembelinc, 

Becembec 16. 

Men. 

Nobly he yokes 

A smiling with a sigh : as if the sigh 

Was that it was, for not being such a smile ; 

The smile mocking the sigh. 

Act IV, Sc. 2, 

Women. 

Society is no comfort 

To one not sociable. 

Act IV, Sc. 2. 

Deccmbet 17. 

Men. 

Winning will put any man into courage. 

Act II, Sc. s- 

Women. 

The flame o' the taper 
Bows toward her ; and would under-peep her 

lids, 
To see the enclosed lights, now canopied 
Under these windows, white and azure lac'd 
With blue of heaven's own tinct. 

Act II, Sc, J. 
229 



December \S* 

Men. 

The art o' the court, 

As hard to leave, as keep ; whose top to climb 

Is certain falling, or so slippery that 

The fear's as bad as falling. 

Aa III, Sc. 3. 

Women. 
I am much sorry, sir, 
You put me to forget a lady's manners, 
By being so verbal : and learn now, for all, 
That I, which know my heart, do here pro- 
nounce, 
By the very truth of it, I care not for you ; 
And am so near the lack of charity, 
(To accuse myself,) I hate you ; which I had 
rather 

You felt, than make 't my boast. 

Act II, Sc,3. 

December 19. 

Men. 

He was too good, to be 

Where ill men were ; and was the best of all 

Amongst the rar'st of good ones. 

Act V, Sc. s. 
230 



poems anO $onnet0. 

Women. 

Thou shalt not lack 
The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; 

nor 
The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor 
The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, 
Outsweeten'd not thy breath. 

Act IV, Sc. 2, 

^oemd and Sonnets, 

December 20. 

Men. 

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together 
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care. 
Youth like summer morn, age like winter 

weather ; 
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. 
The Passionate Pilgrim. 

Women. 

Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth 

view 
Wants nothing that the thought of hearts can 
mend j 

Sonnet 6g. 
231 



Ipoems anD Sonnets* 

2)eceml)er 21. 

Men. 

All my merry jigs are quite forgot 
All my lady's love is lost, God wot : 

O frowning Fortune, cursed, fickle dame 1 

For now I see 

Inconstancy 

More in women than in men remain. 

The Passionate Pilgrim. 

Women. 

If I could write the beauty of your eyes 

And in fresh numbers number all your graces, 

The age to come would say " This poet lies : 

Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly 

faces." 

Sonnet 17. 

December 22. 

Men. 

My love is strength en'd though more weak in 

seeming ; 
I love not less, though less the show appear : 
232 



poems anD Sonneta* 

That love is merchandized whose rich esteem- 
ing 
The owner's tongue doth publish everywhere. 

Sonnet 102, 

Women. 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
Admit impediments. Love is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds 
Or bends with the remover to remove : 
O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark 
That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; 
It is the star to every wandering bark 
Whose worth's unknown, although his height 

be taken. 
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and 

cheeks 
Within his bending sickle's compass come ; 
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 

Sonnet 116, 

2)eceml)et 23* 

Men. 

He did in the general bosom reign 
Of young, of old ; and sexes both enchanted, 
233 



IPoems anD Sonnets. 

To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain 
In personal duty, following where he haunted. 
A Lover's Complaint 

Women. 

Love's best habit is in seeming trust, 
And age in love loves not to have years told. 

Sonnet ij8 

December 24. 

Men. 

On the tip of his subduing tongue 
All kind of arguments and question deep, 
Ail replication prompt, and reason strong, 
For his advantage still did wake and sleep : 
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, 
He had the dialect and different skill. 
Catching all passions in his craft of will : 

A Lover's Complaint. 

Women. 

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. 
For as you were when first your eye I eyed, 
Such seems your beauty still. 

Sonnet 104, 
234 



Ipoemd and Sonnetd« 

December 25. 

Men. 
He that is thy friend indeed, 
He will help thee in thy need : 
If thou sorrow, he will weep ; 
If thou wake, he cannot sleep ; 
Thus of every grief in heart 
He with thee doth bear a part. 
There are certain signs to know 
Faithful friend from flattering foe. 

The Passionate Pilgrim. 

Women. 
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous 

seem 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! 
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. 

Sonnet ^4. 

December 26» 
Men. 
His qualities were beauteous as his form, 

Yet, if men moved him, was he such a storm 
As oft 'twixt May and April is to see. 

Lover's Cofnplaint, 
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Women. 

Nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell 
Of different flowers in odour and in hue, 
Could make me any summer's story tell, 
Or from their proud lap pluck them where 

they grew ; 
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, 
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; 
They were but sweet, but figures of delight, 
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. 

Sonnet g8. 

December 27. 

Men. 

Words are easy, like the wind ; 
Faithful friends are hard to find ; 
Every man will be thy friend 
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend ; 
But if store of crowns be scant. 
No man will supply thy want. 

The Passionate Pilgrim. 

Women. 

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, 
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair ; 
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The ornament of beauty is suspect, 
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. 

Sonnet yo. 

S)eceml)et 28. 
Men. 
Tired with all these, . . . 

Simple truth miscall'd simplicity, 

And captive good attending captain ill : 

Tired with all these, from these would I be 

gone. 

Sonnet 66. 

Women. 

A woman's face with Nature's own hand 
painted 

Hast thou, . . . 

A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted 

With shifting change, as is false women's fash- 
ion. 

Sonnet 20, 

2)cccmbei: 29. 

Men. 

The painful warrior famoused for fight, 
After a thousand victories once foil'd, 
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Is from the book of honour raized quite, 
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. 

Sonnet 2^, 

Women. 

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? 
Thou art more lovely and more temperate : 
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of 

May, 
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date : 

But thy eternal summer shall not fade. 

Sonnet 18, 

December 30. 

Men. 
I am that I am, and they that level 
At my abuses reckon up their own. 

Sonnet 121, 

Women. 
That time of year thou mayst in me behold 
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang 
Upon those boughs which shake against the 

cold. 
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds 

sang. 

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December 31. 

Men. 

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled 

shore, 
So do our minutes hasten to their end ; 
Each changing place with that which goes 

before, 
In sequent toil all forwards do contend. 

And Time that gave doth now his gift con- 
found. 
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, 
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, 
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth. 
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. 

Sonnet 60. 

Women. 

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 
I summon up remembrance of things past, 
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. 
And with old woes new wail my dear time's 
waste. 

Sonnet jo. 



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